The Anthropology of Parliaments Entanglements in Democratic Politics

The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe's insights deepen our understanding of the complexity of political...

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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
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