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Parliamentary Procedure: Politics of Dissensus

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The chapter deals with parliamentary procedure as a dissensual conceptual horizon. Parliamentarisation marks a form of politicisation by opening up parliamentary controversies, and the formation of the parliamentary procedure can be read as a history of the struggle on the successive politicisations, which partly is related to the growing powers of the parliament, partly to the formation of a specific procedural profile for the parliament. The procedural rules for parliamentary agenda-setting and debate create chances for the parliamentary style of acting politically. The procedure indicates how to deal with dissensus without eliminating it. It consists of rules, conventions and practices as well as of struggles on their interpretation in both parliament and in commentary and scholarly publications.

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Palonen, K. (2019). Parliamentary Procedure: Politics of Dissensus. In: Parliamentary Thinking. Rhetoric, Politics and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90533-4_3

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