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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anthropology
democracy
Policy
Political Parties
political science
British Politics

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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

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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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Book Title: Changing Parties
Book Subtitle: An Anthropology of British Political Conferences
Authors: Florence Faucher-King
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509887
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0462-1Published: 11 October 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50946-1Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50988-7Published: 11 October 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 315
Topics: British Politics, Political Science, Anthropology

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