Research Catalog

Title

Political parties, parliaments and legislative speechmaking / Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus.

Author

Bäck, Hanna

Publication

• Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

Debus, Marc

Description

x, 192 pages; 23 cm

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. "--

Subject

• Communication in politics > European Union countries
• Political oratory > European Union countries
• Parliamentary practice > Europe Union countries
• Legislators > European Union countries
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781137484543
• 1137484543

LCCN

^^2015039320

OCLC

922155543

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library