Between Stage and Backstage: Interactions, Improvisation, and Bias in Parliamentary Ethnography

• In Event: Legislative Discourse and Communications

Brief Overview

Based on fieldwork at the French National Assembly, this work contrasts institutional and partisan access, shows how affective ties and improvisation shape interviews, examines stage and backstage dynamics, and outlines risks and safeguards.

Author

• Alexandre Marais, Universite Pantheon Assas-Paris II