scholarly journals More than voters: Parliamentary debates about emigrants in a new democracy

Ethnicities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146879682110463
Author(s):  
Sergiu Gherghina ◽  
Paul Tap ◽  
Sorina Soare
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude ◽  
New Democracy ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

There is much research about how migrants engage with politics in their home countries and about how state institutions facilitate this involvement. Yet, we know little about how members of Parliament refer to, and debate, issues related to communities of emigrants. The ways in which legislators give voice to and represent the de-territorialized demos has broad implications for the functioning of contemporary democracies. This article analyzes the ways in which the Romanian parliamentarians refer to emigrants. We focus on the parliamentary speeches from the plenary sessions in the Chamber of Deputies in the two most recent terms in office (2012–2016 and 2016–2020). The study includes 239 parliamentary speeches and uses thematic analysis. Our results identify an ambivalent attitude toward emigrants that transcends political divides. The Romanian legislators express concerns related to the representation of emigrants and their needs and see them as a valuable pool of economic and electoral support.

5. The Significance of Rituals in Parliament

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Crewe ◽  
Paul Evans
Keyword(s):  
House Of Commons ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Political World ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Power Hierarchy ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the significance of rituals in the UK Parliament, focusing on the centrality of rules in such rituals, how parliamentary debates are ritualized, and how ceremonies order relationships between different groups in our political world. It first explains the purpose of parliamentary rituals and how they are regulated, showing that the value attached to the way Parliament ritualizes its interaction is strongly contested between Members of Parliament (MPs) and by outside commentators. In particular, it considers Standing Orders, rules made by either the House of Commons or the House of Lords to set out the way certain aspects of House procedures operate. The chapter also discusses how rituals result in conflict and conciliation and as markers of power, hierarchy, and identity in Parliament.

Informing Permanent Care Discourses: A Thematic Analysis of Parliamentary Debates in Victoria

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 2137-2156
Author(s):  
Penny Mackieson ◽  
Aron Shlonsky ◽  
Marie Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Parliamentary Debates

Manterrupting in the German Bundestag: Gendered Opposition to Female Members of Parliament?

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 388-408
Author(s):  
Malliga Och
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Substantive Representation ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Superior Knowledge ◽  
Major Attention ◽  
German Bundestag

AbstractThe problem of manterrupting, i.e. men interrupting women to take control of a conversation, claiming superior knowledge, or discrediting women's arguments, has garnered major attention in social and traditional media. Yet scholarly accounts of gendered speech interruption patterns in parliamentary debates are less common. In this article, I argue that manterrupting can be considered a form of resistance against women in politics and, in its worst iteration, prevent female representatives from representing women's interests. This article will analyze the problem of ‘manterrupting’ regarding parliamentary debates in Germany by investigating the nature and extent of male interruptions during parliamentary debates in the 17th legislative period. Drawing on insights from social psychology and masculinity studies, this article finds that in the case of Germany, manterruptions are neither systemic and frequent enough to constitute a form of resistance against women in politics nor do they prevent female representatives from engaging in the substantive representation of women.

Twitter, Incivility and “Everyday” Gendered Othering: An Analysis of Tweets Sent to UK Members of Parliament

2019 ◽  
pp. 089443931986551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalynd Southern ◽  
Emily Harmer
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
To Receive

Recently, widely reported studies assessed messages sent to UK female MPs online and concluded that they suffer high levels of abuse. However, these studies tended to focus on the most high-profile MPs and the worst instances of abuse or did not include male MPs in their study for comparison. This study aims to assess more subtle forms of incivility and othering and the experiences of less prominent MPs online. It takes a mixed-methods approach to analyzing 117,802 tweets sent to MPs over a 14-day period for evidence of incivility. Firstly, models assessing the factors associated with receiving incivility on Twitter are presented, and furthermore, an in-depth thematic analysis of gendered tweets is conducted. The findings suggest that for the receipt of certain types of incivility, there is little difference between female and male MPs. However, female MPs were more likely to receive generally uncivil tweets, tweets with stereotypes about their identity, and tweets questioning their position as politicians than male MPs. Qualitatively, in terms of gendered othering, we found several instances of tweets containing misogynistic abuse, tweets demonizing, and objectifying female MPs, as well as tweets feminizing male MPs.

scholarly journals POVERTY DEBATES IN THE DEWAN RAKYAT OF THE MALAYSIAN PARLIAMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Nazli Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Research Technique ◽  
Rural And Urban

This article highlights the nature of parliamentary debates in the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) of the Malaysian Parliament related to the poverty issues in Malaysia. Using qualitative research technique, it focuses on the untold story of poverty in Malaysia that buried in the Dewan Rakyat Hansard. Analysing poverty issues qualitatively, however, can be ambiguous and open to challenge. Despite the success story of poverty eradication in Malaysia, poverty issues have always been debated in almost every parliament proceeding in the Dewan Rakyat. If Malaysia is so successful in eradicating poverty, why the Members of Parliament (MPs) are still debating the issue in the Dewan Rakyat to date? To understand this issue, it uses Hansard records of the Dewan Rakyat (1990-2012) to narrate the multifaceted of poverty issues in both rural and urban consistencies in Malaysia, qualitatively. It reevaluates the previous works on poverty in Malaysia by examining the debates extracted from the Dewan Rakyat Hansard. The aim is to understand whether and to what extent the poverty eradication agendas have benefited communities and spilled over throughout the constituencies in Malaysia.Key words: The Malaysian Parliament, Hansard, Members of Parliament, Dewan Rakyat; poverty eradication AbstrakArtikel ini menyajikan prediksi perdebatan tentang isu kemiskinan di Malaysia yang diungkapkan di Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, Parlemen Malaysia. Dengan menggunakan teknik penelitian kualitatif, fokus utamanya adalah masih adanya isu kemiskinan di Malaysia yang disematkan dalam Pernyataan Resmi (Hansard) Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat. Namun demikian, menganalisis isu kemiskinan secara kualitatif akan mengundang keabsahan, dan bersifat ambigu serta terbuka terhadap tantangan. Terlepas dari keberhasilan pemberantasan kemiskinan di Malaysia, masalah kemiskinan selalu diperdebatkan hampir di setiap sidang parlemen di Dewan Rakyat. Jika Malaysia berhasil memberantas kemiskinan, mengapa anggota parlemen masih memperdebatkan isu kemiskinan di Dewan Rakyat sampai sekarang? Untuk memahami masalah ini, catatan Pernyataan Resmi, Hansard, Dewan Rakyat (1990-2012) digunakan untuk menggambarkan komposisi isu kemiskinan di daerah perkotaan dan pedesaanndi Malaysia secara kualitatif. Kajian-kajian sebelumnya mengenai kemiskinan di Malaysia dievaluasi kembali dengan meninjau kembali perdebatan yang dikutip dari Pernyataan Resmi, Hansard, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat. Tujuan utamanya adalah untuk memahami apakah ada dan sejauh mana pengentasan kemiskinan menguntungkan masyarakat dan menyebar ke seluruh wilayah di Malaysia.Kata kunci: Parlemen Malaysia, Hansard (Pernyataan Resmi), Anggota Parlemen, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, pengentasan kemiskinan. 

The Gendered Debate: Do Men and Women Communicate Differently in the House of Commons?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Lotte Hargrave ◽  
Tone Langengen
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Female Legislators

Abstract It has long been claimed in the gender and politics literature that male and female legislators have different communication styles. The evidence for this claim has come mostly from interviews with legislators as the key informants on gendered differences. We contribute to this literature in two ways: First, we empirically examine speeches by Members of Parliament to establish whether gendered differences are observable in parliamentary debates. Second, we advance existing measurement approaches by testing for multiple dimensions of communication style, providing a more systematic approach to studying gendered speech behavior. Communication style is examined through a content analysis of almost 200 speeches in three parliamentary sessions of the British House of Commons. We find compelling evidence for differences in communication style: women evidence arguments with personal experience, discuss policies in a concrete way, and are less adversarial than men. Our findings have important implications for how political communication styles might improve public engagement with politicians, offer a different focus to the discussion, and improve democratic legitimacy.

Theories and Empirical Applications of Legislative Debate

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-50
Author(s):  
Jonathan Slapin ◽  
Sven-Oliver Proksch
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Strategic Interactions ◽  
Parliamentary Democracies ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Parliamentary Debate ◽  
Wide Range

This chapter explores the theoretical mechanisms underpinning the participation of Members of Parliament (MPs) in legislative debates across a wide range of parliaments. It argues that researchers must examine both strategic interactions within political parties and political institutions to develop an understanding of which MPs take the floor and how researchers can use legislative speeches to measure the essential concepts of polarization, intra-party dissent, and representation. The chapter discusses the basic institutional framework that governs debate across parliamentary democracies, provides an overview of an intra-party theory of parliamentary debate, and considers various possible extensions of the theory. Finally, the chapter illustrates how scholars can integrate insights from theories of parliamentary debates and text analysis of parliamentary speeches.

Women Members of Parliament

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-209
Author(s):  
Shirin M. Rai ◽  
Carole Spary
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Members Of Parliament

This chapter explores women’s contribution to parliamentary debates—how women access participatory time to contribute to debates through party mechanisms, which concerns they are likely to prioritize (for example party, constituency, issue-based), the extent to which they participate, whether if at all they foreground their identity as women (or other aspects of identity), and the ways in which their contributions are received and interpreted (promoted, lauded, acknowledged, prevented, ignored, silenced, or delegitimized) by others form the substance of this chapter. We argue that we should be concerned about the consequences of reproducing a gendered division of labour where only women MPs, and not men, are tasked to represent ‘women’s issues’, or where women MPs are only tasked to represent ‘women’s issues’ and not other issues.

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