Rituals in Parliaments: Political, Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on Europe and the United States

By bringing together three different academic disciplines – anthropology, political science and history – and covering a variety of different parliamentary assemblies, both in Europe and in the United States, this book aims to offer a fresh approach to parliamentary studies. The authors assess the importance of ritual and symbolic communication in different parliamentary settings. The underlying question that each practitioner and scholar addresses is: Do parliamentary rituals really matter? Some of the contributors argue that legislative procedure is more telling of the role and reputation that a parliament has in a given society than its rituals and ceremonies. Others stress the relevance of these ritual expressions for conveying political sense and meaning to the public.

• | Author: Emma Crewe, Marion G. Mueller
• | Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
• | Publication Date: Mar 21, 2006
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9783631519936
• | ISBN-10: 3631519931