Political parties, parliaments and legislative speechmaking /
Hanna Back, Marc Debus.
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| Summary: | "Why do some Members of Parliament (MPs) take the parliamentary floor and speak more than others? Why do some MPs deviate more than others from the ideological position of their party? This book develops hypotheses on legislative speechmaking and evaluates them by analysing parliamentary debates in seven European democracies: Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Assuming that MPs are concerned with policy-making, career advancement, and re-election, the authors discuss various incentives to taking the floor, and elaborate on the role of gender and psychological incentives in speechmaking. They test their expectations on a novel dataset that covers information on the number of speeches held by MPs and on the ideological positions MPs adopted when delivering a speech. "-- |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: 192 pages ; 23 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9781137484543 1137484543 |
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical expectations about speechmaking
3. How to analyse speeches and legislative debates
4. Who speaks in European parliaments?
5. Who speaks against the party?
6. Conclusions about legislative speechmaking.
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical expectations about speechmaking
3. How to analyse speeches and legislative debates
4. Who speaks in European parliaments?
5. Who speaks against the party?
6. Conclusions about legislative speechmaking.