Parliamentary Thinking: Procedure, Rhetoric and Time

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Springer, 5. 7. 2018 - Počet stran: 270

The parliamentary style of politics has been formed over centuries; nobody theorised it in advance. This book presents a thought experiment to spell out key principles of the parliamentary ideal type of politics. Max Weber offers the main intellectual inspiration, Westminster parliament provides the main historical reference and the author’s studies on parliamentary procedure and rhetoric provide the background for the book. Parliamentary acting and thinking offer us the best example of politics as a contingent and controversial activity. Using a parliamentary imagination, the author constructs the ideal type in five main chapters: dissensual modes of proceeding; rhetoric of parliamentary debate; parliamentary formation and control of government; parliamentarians as politicians; and parliamentary time as their common subtext. In the last two chapters, the book outlines the possibilities of extending parliamentary judgment to politics beyond parliaments proper and the chances for parliamentary politics succeeding today.


 

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Chapter 1 Parliamentary Politics as an Activity
1
Chapter 2 Thinking Parliamentary Politics as an Ideal Type
16
Politics of Dissensus
45
Chapter 4 Deliberative Rhetoric of Parliamentary Debate
75
Chapter 5 Politics of Parliamentary Government
107
Chapter 6 Parliamentary Actors as Politicians
141
Chapter 7 Parliamentary Time as a Medium of Politics
169
Chapter 8 Degrees of Acting Parliamentarily
203
Chapter 9 Chances for Parliamentary Politics Today
225
References
243
Index
262
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Kari Palonen is Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His main research interests include: the concept of politics, Max Weber studies, conceptual history and parliamentary politics. Among his recent publications are A Political Style of Thinking: Essays on Max Weber (2017) and Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action (2017, with Claudia Wiesner and Taru Haapala). He is also editor-in-chief of the journal Redescriptions.


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