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Currently, parliament as a political institution does not enjoy the best reputation. This book aims to recover less known political resources of the parliamentary mode of proceeding. The parliamentary procedure relies on regulating debates in a fair way and on constructing opposed perspectives on the agenda items. The British House of Commons provides the closest historical approximation for the parliamentary ideal type of politics. This book deals with the formation and conceptual change in the Westminster procedure, based on the way they are interpreted in the tracts on procedure. The tracts illustrate the changing parliamentary self-understanding from the 1570s to the present and the growing political role of procedural disputes. The parliamentary style of politics, as discussed in the tracts, can be divided into two genres: the politics of agenda-setting and the politics of debate. The book analyses their formation and overall conceptual change as well as the procedural responses to the increasingly scarce parliamentary time from the period after the 1832 parliamentary reform. It insists that in spite of claims on urgency and on government's leadership the procedural resources of the House of Commons contribute to maintaining the debate-centred parliamentary style of politics.
Contents
1. A procedural perspective on parliamentary politics 1.1 Conceptualisation and transformation of the procedural ideal type 1.2 Max Weber on 'objectivity' as a procedural concept 1.3 The procedural character of ideal-typical parliamentary politics 1.4 Westminster procedural tracts on the parliamentary ideal type 1.5 Procedure and conceptual changes 2. History of Westminster procedural tracts 2.1 The genre of procedural tracts 2.2 A note on the origins of the English parliament and the Modus 2.3 Tracts from the Elizabethan era 2.4 The source-based tracts and their use in the struggle with the Stuarts 2.5 Procedural tracts after the Glorious Revolution 2.6 John Hatsell's codification of procedure 2.7 Tracts for the French Revolution: Samuel Romilly and Jeremy Bentham 2.8 Thomas Erskine May: Treatise and minor works 2.9 Popularisation of procedure and comparative perspective 2.10 Westminster procedure for foreign audiences 2.11 Twentieth-century procedure: Gilbert Campion 2.12 Contemporary procedure: J.A.C. Griffith & Michael Ryle 2.13 The changing agenda of procedural controversies 3. The agenda of parliamentary powers 3.1 Parliament vs. the crown 3.2 The parliamentary freedom of members 3.3 Procedural means for the parliamentary control of government 3.3.1 Impeachment and other legal tools 3.3.2 The publicity of debates 3.3.3 Parliamentary questions 3.4 Vote of no confidence 3.5 Procedure as a form of protection for parliament and its members 3.5.1 Procedure as a limit to arbitrary powers 3.5.2 Consequences of a lack of procedure 3.5.3 Protecting parliament against its own members 3.5.4 The priority of unwritten rules 4. Conceptualisation of parliamentary debating 4.1 Debate as a basic parliamentary operation 4.2 Concepts of Westminster procedure 4.3 Two styles of debate: House and Committee 4.3.1 The origins of committees 4.3.2 Two types of debates 4.3.3 Reforming the committee system 4.4 Regulating debates - forms and practices 4.4.1 The Speaker 4.4.2 Tactical uses of procedure 4.4.3 Parliamentary evils to be avoided 4.5 Unparliamentary language vs. fair play 5. Times of parliamentary debate 5.1 Separation of items of debate 5.2 The politics of amendments 5.3 Times of adjournment 5.4 The passage of motions through parliament 5.5 Times of debate and dissensus 6. Times of parliamentary agenda 6.1 Pressure on parliamentary time 6.2 The parliamentary calendar 6.3 Time limits for parliamentary debates 6.4 Adaptation of debates to parliamentary government 6.4.1 Procedural limits to the government's monopoly of initiative 6.4.2 Rhetorical limits to governmental powers 6.4.3 Two dividing lines in the House of Commons 7. Temporal layers of parliamentary politics 7.1 The politics and history of procedural tracts 7.2 Conceptual changes in procedure tracts 7.3 Adversarial and dissensual concepts of parliament References Abbreviations Parliamentary debates (consulted 2 August 2013) Parliamentary documents (consulted 26 December 2013) Parliamentary papers (University of Jyvaskyla Library, consulted 2 August 2013) Other Primary sources(online publications consulted 25 December 2013) Literature Index
