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Jun 26, 2015 · Jason Brickhill and Yana van Leeve 'Transformative Constitutionalism - Guiding Light or Empty Slogan' (2015) Acta Juridica 141-171. || We engage afresh with the notion of transformative...
Aug 1, 2015 · In honor of FPRI's 60th Anniversary, this lecture traces the intellectual roots of FPRI's approach to Geopolitics, as initially formulated by its founder Robert Strausz-Hupé, and considers how this...
- Ronald Granieri
- 1 Debate, Discourse, Dispute, Discussion and Dissensus
- 2 Debate as Pro et Contra and as A Peaceful Form of Struggle
- 3 ‘Live’ and ‘Virtual’ Debates
- 4 Documents as Contributions to Debates
- 5 Political and Academic Debates: Similarities and Differences
‘Debate’, as we understand it, is the practice of speaking pro et contra on an item on the agenda between a plurality of agents. This understanding differs from other related concepts, such as ‘discourse’. It implies a slightly, but crucially different direction of analysis than ‘debate’, as it mainly focuses on how meaningis constructed and reprod...
In certain circumstances debate can be regarded as a way of fighting fairly, of waging a peaceful struggle. In our view, debate also means speaking pro et contra on a proposal (motion) or on an analysis of the situation at hand. In ‘live’ debates performed in deliberative assemblies, the opponent is confronted in the moment and has to be respected ...
Debates, in a broader sense, can be either ‘live’ or ‘virtual’. In live debates, the proponents and opponents of a motion face each other in the same physical space, as is the case with parliaments and other assemblies that follow their model. In public meetings, too, the adversaries may confront each other, and the public decides who ‘wins’. In co...
A key point in our argument is that political analysis should consider not only spoken debate, but also written debate in the form of minutes, pamphlets, treatises or other documents. But in what way are documents to be considered a part of debate? We will first turn to impersonal documents that are not published by named authors. We shall return t...
Quentin Skinner recommends his students to treat Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan like a ‘speech in parliament’ (Skinner 2008). The quote reminds us that the line between political and academic debates is not as clear as is commonly assumed, and sometimes it can even be questioned whether the line exists at all. When considering how some scholars do take p...
- Claudia Wiesner, Kari Palonen, Taru Haapala
- 2017
Feb 1, 2017 · Electoral manifestos play a crucial role in visions of party democracy and political science analyses of party competition. While research has focused on the contents of manifestos, we know much less about how parties produce manifestos and the roles they take in campaigns.
- Nikolaus Eder, Marcelo Jenny, Wolfgang C. Müller
- 2017
In so doing it makes three contributions to the literature on justice. First, it explains what kind of guidance we should expect a theory of justice to offer citizens. Second, it specifies the criteria that a particular theory of justice needs to satisfy to qualify as action guiding.
Apr 24, 2018 · In light of the findings, this paper provides practical recommendations on how evidence producers can emulate such success in different contexts: understand formal and informal processes, master...
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May 1, 2014 · It showcases both the normative and empirical traditions in political leadership studies, and juxtaposes behavioural, institutional, and interpretive approaches. It covers formal, office-based as well as informal, emergent political leadership, and in both democratic and undemocratic polities.
