The House of Commons: an anthropology of MPs' work
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
: A - 22A Anthropology
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : A - 22A Anthropology
- Output identifier
- 21673
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781474234573
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474234610.ch-003
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This ethnography of the House of Commons involved immersive participant-observation fieldwork for two years: analysing parliamentary texts and social media/media stories; conducting over 100 interviews and seven visits to constituencies across the UK; compiling mini-ethnographic histories on a bi-election, a selection, the making of law and an inquiry; and advising the administration on how to evaluate the services it provides to MPs. As the first anthropological study of UK MPs’ political work, the research relied on intensive collaboration with politicians and parliamentary officials and the monograph reflects the complex processes and plural worldviews found in the House of Commons.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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