Eurosceptics into the Limelight? Eurosceptic Parliamentary Actors and Media Bias in EU Affairs
In the spotlight for some time now, the potential of national parliaments to legitimise EU politics has become even more salient given the growing politicisation and public contestation of EU issues.
Katrin Auel
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How to Argue with Questions and Answers: Argumentation Strategies in Parliamentary Deliberation
While apparently designed to request information, parliamentary questions are the most challenging and face-threatening acts, used argumentatively by opposition members of parliament (MPs) to confront and attack government MPs, and especially the Prime ...
Cornelia Ilie
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Democracy at a Crossroads: The Abuse of Electoral Systems [PDF]
This article provides an analysis of the evolution of democracy and the impact of abuses within political systems on electoral processes. It explores the historical development of parliamentary election systems worldwide, considering their susceptibility
fardin moradkhani, davood kazemi
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Evasion and hedging in the language of parliamentary Question Time [PDF]
The paper examines evasion and hedging in the language of parliamentary Question Time in the British House of Commons and in the Australian House of Representatives.
Lukáš Nevrkla
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Administrative review and oversight: the experience of Westminster [PDF]
Parliament has been left behind by far-reaching changes to the constitution, government and society in the past two decades. Despite recent innovations, particularly in the handling of legislation, the central question of Westminster's scrutiny of the ...
Shephard, Mark
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The behaviour of political parties and MPs in the parliaments of the Weimar Republic [PDF]
Copyright @ 2012 The Authors. This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.Analysing the roll-call votes of the MPs of the Weimar Republic we find: (1) that party competition in the Weimar ...
Berg-Schlosser Dirk +44 more
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IMPOLITENESS IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONING
The study aims at investigating the types of impoliteness used in English and Arabic parliamentary questioning. The first thing that has to be done in order for this study to accomplish its objectives is to compile a list of authentic English and Arabic parliamentary questioning sessions.
Dr. Qasim Abbas Dhayef Al-Tufayl +1 more
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Towards Legislative Institutionalisation? Emerging Patterns of Routinisation in Myanmar’s Parliament
This article investigates the patterns of parliamentary change observed in Myanmar since a constitutionally sanctioned, partially elected legislature was revived in January 2011. In particular, it poses the question as to whether processes of legislative
Renaud Egreteau
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Bullets over ballots: Islamist groups, the state and electoral violence in Egypt and Morocco [PDF]
This article is concerned with state-sponsored electoral violence in liberalized autocracies. The first section of the paper identifies a number of variables that can help explain the decision calculus of authoritarian incumbents to deploy force against ...
Abaza Khairi +36 more
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La cuestión religiosa como factor de conflictividad política durante la Segunda República
The Second Republic did not try to put an end to religion and the Catholic Church, but to lay the foundations for the laicization of the State and the secularization of society.
Miguel Ángel Giménez Martínez
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