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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Palonen, Kari,

Titel

The politics of parliamentary procedure : the formation of the westminster procedure as a parliamentary ideal type

Ort / Verlag

Leverkusen, [Germany] : Barbara Budrich Publishers,

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover ; The Politics of Parliamentary Procedure. The Formation of the Westminster Procedure a sa Parliamentary Ideal Type; Table of Content; Acknowledgements; 1. A procedural perspective on parliamentary politics; 1.1 Conceptualisation and transformation of the proceduralideal type; 1.2 Max Weber on 'objectivity' as a procedural concept; 1.3 The procedural character of ideal-typical parliamentarypolitics; 1.4 Westminster procedural tracts on the parliamentaryideal type; 1.5 Procedure and conceptual changes; 2. History of Westminster procedural tracts; 2.1 The genre of procedural tracts
• 2.2 A note on the origins of the English parliament and theModus2.3 Tracts from the Elizabethan era; 2.4 Source-based tracts and the struggle with the Stuarts; 2.5 Procedural tracts after the Glorious Revolution; 2.6 John Hatsell's codification of procedure; 2.7 Tracts for the French Revolution: Samuel Romilly andJeremy Bentham; 2.8 Thomas Erskine May: Treatise and minor works; 2.9 The popularisation of procedure and a comparativeperspective; 2.10 Westminster procedure for foreign audiences; 2.11 Twentieth-century procedure: Campion; 2.12 Contemporary procedure: Griffith and Ryle
• 2.13 The changing agenda of procedural controversies3. The agenda of parliamentary powers; 3.1 Parliament vs. the crown; 3.2 The parliamentary freedom of members; 3.3 Procedural means for parliamentary control of thegovernment; 3.3.1 Impeachment and other legal tools; 3.3.2 The publicity of debates; 3.3.3 Parliamentary questions; 3.4 Vote of no confidence; 3.5 Procedure as a form of protection for parliament and itsmembers; 3.5.1 Procedure as a limit to arbitrary powers; 3.5.2 Consequences of a lack of procedure; 3.5.3 Protecting parliament against its own members
• 3.5.4 The priority of unwritten rules4. Conceptualisation of parliamentary debating; 4.1 Debate as a basic parliamentary operation; 4.2 Concepts of Westminster procedure; 4.3 Two styles of debate: House and Committee; 4.3.1 The origins of committees; 4.3.2 Two types of debate; 4.3.3 Reforming the committee system; 4.4 Regulating debates - forms and practices; 4.4.1 The Speaker; 4.4.2 Tactical uses of procedure; 4.4.3 Parliamentary evils to be avoided; 4.5 Unparliamentary language vs. fair play; 5. Times of parliamentary debate; 5.1 Separation of items of debate; 5.2 The politics of amendments
• 5.3 Times of adjournment5.4 The passage of motions through parliament; 5.5 Times of debate and dissensus; 6. The times of parliamentary agenda; 6.1 Pressure on parliamentary time; 6.2 The parliamentary calendar; 6.3 Time limits for parliamentary debates; 6.4 Adaptation of debates to parliamentary government; 6.4.2 Rhetorical limits to governmental powers; 6.4.3 Two dividing lines in the House of Commons; 6.5 Limits to the governmentalisation of parliamentary time; 7. Temporal layers of parliamentary politics; 7.1 The politics and history of procedural tracts
• 7.2 Conceptual changes in the procedural tracts
• English
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 16, 2014).