Democracy in Practice [electronic resource] : Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament /
Rai, S.editor.
Johnson, R.editor.
This collection makes a compelling case for the importance of studying ceremony and ritual in deepening our understanding of modern democratic parliaments. It reveals through rich case studies that modes of behaviour, the negotiation of political and physical spaces and the creation of specific institutional cultures, underpin democracy in practice.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introducing Democracy in Practice: Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament; Part I: Performing Representation; 1 Representing Democracy: Ceremony and Ritual in the Indian Parliament; 2 Westminster parlimentarians: Performing Politics; 3 Negotiating Gendered Institutions: Women's Parliamentary Friendships at Westminster; 4 The Emergence and Impact of First Female Speakers in the UK, South Africa and India; Part II: Deliberation and Disruption; 5 Proceduralising the Plenary as a Public Sphere in South Africa
6 Prime Minister's Questions as Political Ritual at Westminster7 The Indian Parliament: Performing Decline since the 1960s; 8 Disrupting Deliberation? Comparing Repertoires of Parliamentary Representation in India, the UK and South Africa; Part III: Symbolic Spaces; 9 Space and Symbols: Transforming Parliamentary Buildings in South Africa and Germany; 10 The Archi-Texture of Parliament at Westminster; 11 Pageantry as Politics: The State Opening of Parliaments in South Africa, India and the UK; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This collection makes a compelling case for the importance of studying ceremony and ritual in deepening our understanding of modern democratic parliaments. It reveals through rich case studies that modes of behaviour, the negotiation of political and physical spaces and the creation of specific institutional cultures, underpin democracy in practice.
Political science.
Democracy.
Political theory.
World politics.
Political Science.
Democracy.
Political Theory.
Political History.