Parliamentary Thinking Procedure, Rhetoric and Time /

• Main Author: Palonen, Kari (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
• Subjects: Political theory.; Democracy.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; Political science.; Political Theory.; British Politics.; Governance and Government.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Parliamentary politics as an activity
• 2. Thinking parliamentary politics as an ideal type
• 3. Parliamentary procedure: politics of dissensus
• 4. Deliberative rhetoric of parliamentary debate
• 5. Politics of parliamentary government
• 6. Parliamentary actors as politicians
• 7. Parliamentary time as a medium of politics
• 8. Degrees of acting parliamentarily
• 9. Chances for parliamentary politics today.