Parliamentary thinking : procedure, rhetoric and time
Kari Palonen (Author)
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 Max Weber offers the main intellectual inspiration, Westminster parliament provides the main historical reference and the author's studies on parliamentary procedure and rhetoric provide the background for the book.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.-- Provided by publisher
1 online resource (xi, 270 pages)
9783319905334, 3319905333
1043830940
Parliamentary politics as an activity
Thinking parliamentary politics as an ideal type
Parliamentary procedure : politics of dissensus
Deliberative rhetoric of parliamentary debate
Politics of parliamentary government
Parliamentary actors as politicians
Parliamentary time as a medium of politics
Degrees of acting parliamentarily
Chances for parliamentary politics today