Parliament and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of a European Concept - Paperback

by Pasi Ihalainen (Editor), Cornelia Ilie (Editor), Kari Palonen (Editor)

Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects-deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty-and explores the different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and implemented in a series of representative national and regional case studies. As one of the first comparative studies in conceptual history, this volume focuses on debates about the nature of parliament and parliamentarism within and across different European countries, representative institutions, and genres of political discourse.

Author Biography

Cornelia Ilie is Professor of Linguistics and Rhetoric, Malmö University, Sweden. She has published extensively on political media and academic discourses, rhetoric and argumentation, including The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction (2015) and Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (co-edited with Giuliana Garzone, 2017). She is the president of ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue).