Hanna Bäck
Professor
The Politics of Legislative Debates : An Introduction
Författare
Redaktör
- 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.
Avdelning/ar
- Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
Publiceringsår
2021
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1-20
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
The Politics of Legislative Debates
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Ämne
- Political Science
Nyckelord
- legislative debates
- electoral systems
- text-as-data
- political parties
- MPs
- comparative institutions
- gender
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 9780198849063