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The Politics of Legislative Debates : An Introduction

Bäck, Hanna LU orcid ; Debus, Marc and Fernandes, Jorge M.O. (2021) p.1-20
Abstract
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... (More)
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. (Less)
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legislative debates, electoral systems, text-as-data, political parties, MPs, comparative institutions, gender
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The Politics of Legislative Debates
editor
Bäck, Hanna ; Debus, Marc and Fernandes, Jorge M.
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1 - 20
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Oxford University Press
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  • scopus:85148782459
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9780198849063
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10.1093/oso/9780198849063.003.0001
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English
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  title        = {{The Politics of Legislative Debates : An Introduction}},
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