The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing
parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by …

Yelling across the floor of the House of Commons to ask a question of the prime minister
over the shouts of boos is far from effective in holding government to account, yet it remains …

This article explores the importance of ceremony and ritual as a frame within which to
examine political institutions such as parliaments. It suggests that through such analysis we …

Rather than take these for granted, we investigate the relationship between politics and
performance to discover structural similarities we are calling 'grammar'. Designed to mean …

Du civil au politique Ethnographies du vivre-ensemble Mathieu Berger, Daniel Cefaï, Carole
Gayet-Viaud (dir.) Bruxelles, Peter Page 1 1 Du civil au politique Ethnographies du …

This chapter argues the case for an interpretive approach to parliamentary studies in the UK
and beyond. The chapter begins with a summary of the traditional institutionalist approach …

Disruptions to debate in India's national parliament by members have generated concern
among critics, who have associated disruptions with a larger narrative of the decline of …

In January 2011, parliament was restored in Myanmar after two decades of military rule.
Startlingly, it began to repeal obsolete laws, scrutinize government expenditures, summon …

In 1997, an unprecedented number of female MPs—120—were elected to the UK House of
Commons, doubling the numbers of female representatives overnight. Of these, 101 came …

Building on my work on the Indian, South African and UK parliaments, the article argues that
the symbolic is integral to the descriptive and the substantive; that the symbolic can be …