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Changing Parties

An Anthropology of British Political Conferences

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  • © 2005

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  1. Florence Faucher-King
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. An Anthropological Approach to “Conventional Politics”

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 1-24

  3. Why Do People Attend Conferences?

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 25-43

  4. Imagined Communities

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 44-70

  5. Constructing Leadership and Authority

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 71-93

  6. Setting the Agenda

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 94-120

  7. Making the News

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 121-143

  8. The Public Performance

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 144-166

  9. The Discourse of Deliberative Democracy

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 167-190

  10. Direct Democracy: The Vote as Fetish

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 191-213

  11. Fringe Benefits: Dissent vs Commercialisation

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 214-235

  12. Conclusion — Politics in the Age of the Individual

    • Florence Faucher-King
    Pages 236-245

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 246-315
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About this book

Party conferences are central to the life of political parties. They contribute to setting policy agendas, developing policy options, legitimizing policy choices, building party cohesion, motivating activists and publicizing party activities to the wider public. An analysis of their evolution in Britain helps us understand the ways in which political parties change. This book combines anthropological methods with political science to analyze changing power relationships, party organizations and political culture in British political parties: Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, The Greens.

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' Changing parties is a welcome in-depth study of the transformation of the British party conferences...This is a thoroughly-researched book which provides a welcome insight into the transformation of these annual seaside gatherings and the changes within British political parties in the 1990s; it is a welcome addition to the study of political parties and more generally to British political ethnography'. - James Stanyer, Political Studies Review

About the author

FLORENCE FAUCHER-KING is a Professor at the CEVIPOF in Sciences Po, Paris, France, where she teaches and researches. Her interests include political parties, new social movements and green politics. She has previously taught at Stirling University and she is the author of Les Habits Verts de la Politique (1999).

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