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Parliamentary Time as a Medium of Politics

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The chapter deals with parliamentary time that underlies all the other aspects as a temporal ‘subtext’ of parliamentary politics. The temporal aspect is built into the parliamentary procedures, debates, regimes and actors. It is not only a play in time but also a play with time. The parliamentary debate requires sufficient time but at the same time recognising that parliamentary time is always scarce, and a fair distribution of it between both items and members is necessary. Parliamentary politics shows therefore an extraordinary sensitivity for time. Parliamentary time is based on multiple rounds of debate as well as on a time order of parliamentary moves of different types. When used in parliamentary politics, temporal concepts, such as past, present and future, experience and expectation or kronos and kairos also receive a distinct parliamentary figuration.

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Palonen, K. (2019). Parliamentary Time as a Medium of Politics. In: Parliamentary Thinking. Rhetoric, Politics and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90533-4_7

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