Debates Rhetoric and Political Action 1st edition by Claudia Wiesner,Taru Haapala,Kari Palonen 9781137570567 1137570563

Chapter 1: Understanding Debate as Politics

1.1 The Conceptual Aspect of Politics

1.2 Politics as an Activity

1.3 Four Aspects of Politics: Politicisation—Polity; Politicking—Policy

1.4 Types of Politics—Types of Debate

1.4.1 Debate, Discourse, Dispute, Discussion and Dissensus

1.4.2 Debate as pro et contra and as a Peaceful Form of Struggle

1.4.3 ‘Live’ and ‘Virtual’ Debates

1.4.4 Documents as Contributions to Debates

1.4.5 Political and Academic Debates: Similarities and Differences

1.5 The Presence of Politics in Texts and Debates

Chapter 2: Reading Debates Politically

2.1 Political Literacy

2.2 Parliamentary Debate as an Ideal Type

2.2.1 On the History of Parliamentary Debates

2.2.2 Extensions of Parliamentary Debates

2.2.3 Limits of Debate

2.2.4 Restrictions of Debate Inside Parliaments

2.3 Forms, Dimensions and Characteristics of Debates

2.3.1 Rules and Procedures of Debate

2.3.2 Debates on the Agenda and Debates of the Agenda

2.3.3 The Actors in Debate

2.3.4 Regulators of Debate

2.3.5 Multistage and Multilayer Debates

2.3.6 The Scarcity of Time for Debate

2.3.7 Terminating Debates

Chapter 3: Research Practices and Operations in Studying Debates and Documents

3.1 The Researcher’s Perspective on the Sources

3.1.1 Keeping Your Distance While Being Part of the Debate

3.1.2 On the Veto Power of the Sources

3.2 Approaches to Linguistic Political Action: Discourse Analysis, Rhetorical Analysis and Concept

3.2.1 Discourse Analysis

3.2.2 Rhetorical Analysis

The Rhetorical Tools: Topoi, Tropes and Figures as Arguments

3.2.3 Concepts as Nodal Points of Debates

3.3 Analysing Debates and Documents: The Essential Steps

3.3.1 Finding a Research Topic and Fixing the Research Question

3.3.2 From Research Topic to Research Question in the Exemplar Study

3.3.3 Determining the Research Material

3.3.4 Material Selection in the Exemplar Study

3.3.5 Analysing the Material

3.3.6 Ordering, Coding and Extracting

3.4 Categories for Analysing Debates and Documents: Explaining the ‘How’ and the ‘Why’

3.4.1 Numbers and Quantities

3.4.2 Finding Out the ‘How’ and ‘Why’ in the Exemplar Study

3.4.3 Further Useful Dimensions for Analysing Debates

3.5 Building Typologies, Drawing Conclusions and Answering Questions

3.5.1 Key Themes, Topics and Rules of the Discourses in the Exemplar Study

3.5.2 The Discourses in a Comparative Perspective

3.5.3 Computer-Supported Analysis

Chapter 4: Examples of Analysing Debates as Politics

4.1 Three Interpretations of a Parliamentary Debate: The Case of Constitutional Renewal in West

4.1.1 Procedure, Concepts and Time as Topics of the Debate—Kari Palonen

The Reform Agenda

Gordon Brown’s Politics of Limited Times

New Items on the Agenda from the Backbenchers

4.1.2 Analysis of a House of Commons Debate—Claudia Wiesner

Course, Actors and Rules of the Debate

Concepts, Themes and Arguments in the Debate

Further Perspectives

4.1.3 A House of Commons Debate Analysis—Taru Haapala

Rhetorical Genres and Commonplace Expressions

Politics of Agenda-Setting in the Debate

Parliamentary versus Popular Sovereignty

In Conclusion

4.2 Conceptual Controversies in Parliament—‘Politics’ in the House of Commons

4.2.1 The Four Aspects of Politics in Parliamentary Debate

4.2.2 ‘Political’ in British Constitutional Debates from the Late 1940s

4.2.3 ‘Politicking’ in the Westminster Debates

4.2.4 ‘Politics’ in British Parliament

4.3 Reading and Analysing Political Debate in Debating Societies

4.4 Parliamentary Rules of Procedure: The Case of the European Parliament

4.4.1 Rules of Parliamentary Procedure as Documents in Debates

4.4.2 Conceptions of Parliament

4.4.3 A First Look at the EP as a Parliament

4.4.4 EP’s Procedural History

4.4.5 French and British Procedural Styles

4.4.6 EP’s Francophone Committees

4.4.7 Free Mandate versus Party Groups

4.4.8 The Intervention of the Commission and the Councils

4.4.9 The Parliamentary Regulation of Debate

4.4.10 The EP President as a Negotiator

4.4.11 The Politics of Time in the EP

4.4.12 The MEP as a Politician

4.4.13 Conclusions

4.5 Doing Politics via Policy Documents and Laws: The Case of EU Citizenship Rights

4.5.1 The Conceptual Context: Citizenship in Western Nation-­States and the EU

4.5.2 The Institutional Context

4.5.3 Citizenship Rights in the Treaty of Rome

4.5.4 Creating and Interpreting Union Citizenship

4.5.5 Implementing Union Citizenship: The Example of the Right to Free Movement

4.5.6 Shaping the Principle of Antidiscrimination

4.5.7 In Conclusion

4.6 What Is Said and What Is Not in Press Debates: The Silencing Strategy in Germany

4.6.1 Case 1: Marginalising EU Critics in the Mainstream Parties

4.6.2 Case 2: The PDS

4.6.3 Case 3: Peter Gauweiler

4.6.4 In Conclusion

4.7 The Politics of a Subtext: Football as a Polity

4.7.1 Text and Subtext

4.7.2 The Political Subtext of Football

4.7.3 The Politics of Football Tactics

Notes

Concluding Notes: Reappraising Politics and Debate

References

Archival Sources

Databases, Websites and Treaties

Literature