Performative prorogation: what Johnson, Cummings and Co are trying to teach the public

White, Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0002-4668-698X (2019) Performative prorogation: what Johnson, Cummings and Co are trying to teach the public. British Politics and Policy at LSE (02 Sep 2019). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

By proroguing Parliament, the government may be trying to teach the public that liberal democracy is a charade and that playing dirty is how politics must go, writes Jonathan White. He explains how prorogation is a performance of ideas about authority and politics.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2019 The Author
Divisions:	European Institute
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JC Political theory
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2020 07:39
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 02:22
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105670

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