@book{2016:palonen:from_orato,
title = {From Oratory to Debate},
year = {2016},
note = {Recent studies manifest a new interest in the politics of internal
parliamentary practices. The book presents a thesis that a shift from
oratory to debate characterises the parliamentarisation of
deliberative rhetoric. Parliamentary speeches are intelligible only as
political interventions <i>pro et contra</i> to debates on motions on
the agenda and the agenda-setting itself.Scholars of rhetoric and
parliaments have been slow to recognise this shift and its political
implications. The book analyses the rhetoric of Westminster-related
writings from late 18th century to WWII among scholars and others
outsiders in contrast to parliamentary insiders (officials,
journalists, members). A special attention is given to John Stuart
Mill and Walter Bagehot as the most prominent British parliamentary
theorists and to cases studies on actual parliamentary debates. With
its procedures and ways of dealing time the Westminster-style
parliament is an exemplary political assembly of debating <i>pro et
contra.</i>},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Nomos},
address = {Baden-Baden},
series = {Politics-Debates-Concepts. Politik-Debatten-Begriffe},
volume = {3},
author = {Palonen, Kari}
}