Rationalizing Parliament examines how institutional arrangements in the French Constitution shape the bargaining strategies of political parties. Professor Huber investigates the decision by French elites to include in the Constitution legislative procedures intended to "rationalize" the policy-mak
Political Parties, Parliaments and Legislative Speechmaking
โ Scribed by Hanna Bรคck, Marc Debus (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 203
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Theoretical Expectations about Speechmaking....Pages 20-47
How to Analyse Speeches and Legislative Debates....Pages 48-74
Who Speaks in European Parliaments?....Pages 75-110
Who Speaks against the Party?....Pages 111-141
Conclusions about Legislative Speechmaking....Pages 142-165
Back Matter....Pages 166-192
โฆ Subjects
Political Science; European Politics; Media Studies; US Politics; Political Theory; Democracy
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