Download or read book Changing Parties written by F. Faucher-King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.