TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geddes, Marc
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - Dramas at Westminster: select committees and the quest for accountability
T3  - Political ethnography
PB  - Manchester University Press
CY  - Manchester
KW  - Legislative bodies
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Committees
KW  - Government accountability
KW  - Abgeordneter
KW  - Rollenverhalten
KW  - Verantwortung
KW  - Parlamentsausschuss
KW  - Obligation de rendre compte (Administration publique) - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - Grande-Bretagne - Politique et gouvernement
AB  - Based on unprecedented access to the UK Parliament, this book challenges how we understand and think about accountability between government and Parliament. The book focuses on the everyday practices of MPs and officials to reveal how parliamentarians perform their scrutiny roles. Many adopt different styles of scrutiny, which chairs of committees attempt to reconcile and officials try to support. MPs and officials create a drama or spectacle of accountability and use their performance on the parliamentary stage to hold government to account. This book offers the most up-to-date and detailed research on committee practices in the House of Commons, following a range of reforms since 2010. The findings add new dimensions to how we study and understand accountability through the book's path-breaking empirical focus and theoretical lens. It is an ideal book for anyone interested in how Parliament works
SN  - 9781526136800
LA  - English
N1  - Marc Geddes
ID  - 1713886413
ER  -