Kari Palonen: 4 books
Politics and Conceptual Histories
Rhetorical and Temporal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The international expansion of conceptual historical research during last 20 years is a remarkable turn in the academia. The conceptual confrontation of different approaches, themes and forms of research has reached several academic fields in numerous countries. From the 1990s to the present Kari...
The Politics of Parliamentary Procedure
The Formation of the Westminster Procedure as a Parliamentary Ideal Type
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
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...
Debates, Rhetoric and Political Action
Practices of Textual Interpretation and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This book explicates how debates and documents can be understood, interpreted and analysed as political action. It offers the reader both a theoretical introduction and practical guidance. The authors deploy the perspective that debates are to be understood as political activity, and documents can...
Parliamentary Thinking
Procedure, Rhetoric and Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
The parliamentary style of politics has been formed over centuries; nobody theorised it in advance. This book presents a thought experiment to spell out key principles of the parliamentary ideal type of politics. Max Weber offers the main intellectual inspiration, Westminster parliament provides the...