Soininen / Vaarakallio Challenges to Parliamentary Politics

Rhetoric, Representation and Reform
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8452-6500-1
Verlag: Nomos
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 169 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm

Reihe: Politics-Debates-Concepts - Politik Debatten-Begriffe

Intertwined political and economic crises have battered citizens of EU-states for several years now. Due to demanding austerity politics ”democracy” seems to remain, in many cases, only an empty phrase. This book examines the challenges to parliamentary politics today but also explores its means to develop, reform and even survive. The book approaches these questions in terms of political rhetoric and conceptual history as well as more traditional style of political philosophy. The writers of this volume come from different European backgrounds, providing a versatile discussion and a fruitful insight to parliamentarism today in Europe. Different perspectives comprise a historico-theoretical discussion, for example, by viewing parliament as a victim of its own success, by seeing the European Parliament as a historically new possibility for democratic representation and by giving a sceptical view of parliamentary democracy in modern mass conditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soininen, Suvi

Vaarakallio, Tuula

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2; Challenges to Parliamentary Politics: Rhetoric, Representation and Reform;8
2.1; 1. Introduction;8
2.2; 2. Nothing new under the sun?;10
2.3; 3. About the articles;12
3; Parliamentarism Challenged;18
3.1; 1. Introduction;18
3.2; 2. A note on ‘distrust’;19
3.3; 3. Less parliamentary time and an increasing political agenda;20
3.4; 4. Governmentalisation of the agenda and its limits;22
3.5; 5. Electoralisation and partisanisation of parliament;24
3.6; 6. Reduction of parliamentary politics of time;26
3.7; 7. Counter-bureaucratision in parliaments;28
3.8; 8. Inter-parliamentary power struggles;30
3.9; 9. Final remarks;33
3.10; References;34
4; The European Parliament: an Answer to Challenges Facing Parliamentarism in Europe Today?;38
4.1; 1. Introduction;38
4.2; 2. Is the EP really a democratically deficient parliament?;40
4.3; 3. The EP: a parliament in the making;41
4.4; 4. Deliberation, representation, sovereignty and responsibility in the EP;45
4.5; 5. Specific features of the EP;49
4.6; 6. The EP as political actor: fighting for democratisation of the EU;51
4.7; 7. The EP and the sovereign debt crisis;54
4.8; 8. Conclusion: does the EP provide an answer to the current challenges facing parliamentarism?;55
4.9; References;57
5; Republican Rationality and the Democratic Deficit of French Political Representation;60
5.1; 1. Introduction;60
5.2; 2. Carl Schmitt and the political theory of anti-liberal decisionism;62
5.3; 3. Liberalism and the tension between values and institutions;66
5.4; 4. Same sex marriage legislation: mind the gap;69
5.5; 5. From a democracy of the People to a democracy of people;73
5.6; References;78
6; Parliamentary Politics and Migration: Re-interpreting the Citizenry in the Case of Germany;80
6.1; 1. Introduction;80
6.2; 2. The legal framework: on the German citizenship law;83
6.3; 3. Second generation immigrants and ethnic German resettlers: conditions for acquiring citizenship;87
6.4; 4. Jewish immigrants: Conditions for granting residence;88
6.5; 5. The jus tempus principle and the German examples;90
6.6; 6. Integration as an interpretation between the contemporary and the historical;92
6.7; 7. Conclusion;95
6.8; References;97
7; The Borderline between Parliamentary and Extra-Parliamentary Rhetoric: the Case of the Populist (True) Finns Party;100
7.1; 1. Introduction;100
7.2; 2. Double discourse;102
7.2.1; a. Regarding parliamentary democracy;103
7.2.2; b. Regarding immigration;104
7.2.3; c. Hybrid positioning;107
7.3; 3. Parliamentary conduct and rules of discipline;108
7.4; 4. Parliamentary and extra-parliamentary language;111
7.5; 5. Parliamentary speaking as a specific genre;113
7.6; 6. Pamphlet-style rhetoric;115
7.7; 8. Some final remarks;118
7.8; Primary sources;120
7.9; Literature;122
8; Parliamentary Politics, Rhetoric and Means of Talking about Economic Policy;126
8.1; 1. Introduction;126
8.2; 2. Economic policy as a non-political matter;128
8.3; 3. The rhetoric of so-called ‘general truths’;131
8.4; 4. Economic crisis as a ‘state of exception’;135
8.5; 5. Limited power of parliament in the state budget;137
8.6; 6. Conclusion;140
8.7; References;143
9; Defending Parliamentary Politics and Individual Freedom in a Disillusioned World;146
9.1; 1. Introduction;146
9.2; 2. Two moralities and mass democracy;150
9.3; 3. Mass democracy within the British context of liberal thinking;157
9.4; 4. Towards a disillusioned defence of parliamentary politics?;160
9.5; 5. In defence of civil association;163
9.6; Literature;164
10; List of contributors;168