Hanna Bäck
Professor
The Politics of Legislative Debates : An Introduction
Author
Editor
- Hanna Bäck
- Marc Debus
- Jorge M. Fernandes
Summary, in English
The contribution of this chapter to our volume is fourfold. First, we look at why we should study legislative debates and how scholars may benefit from representation, legislative politics, party politics, and electoral studies by incorporating debates in their analysis. In so doing, we unpack their functions in liberal democracies. Second, the chapter offers a state of the art of the burgeoning field of legislative debates. We focus on the normative scholarly discussion about legislative debates and their importance for deliberation and democratic outputs. In addition, we dwell on Proksch and Slapin's model as a watershed in the empirical study of legislative debates, particularly due to its capacity to travel and its usefulness in understanding how different institutional settings have an impact of speechmaking. Third, the chapter presents the theoretical framework, the key hypotheses guiding the volume, and our empirical approach to legislative debates. Fourth, the chapter concludes with the plan of the book.
Department/s
- Department of Political Science
Publishing year
2021
Language
English
Pages
1-20
Publication/Series
The Politics of Legislative Debates
Links
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic
- Political Science
Keywords
- legislative debates
- electoral systems
- text-as-data
- political parties
- MPs
- comparative institutions
- gender
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9780198849063