{"title":"Preparing the stages for popular deliberation. Political parties, voters and extra-parliamentary communication in West Germany and Europe, 1940s–70s","authors":"Claudia C. Gatzka","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2024.2308338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2024.2308338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"373 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140473156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intolerant majorities: the breakthrough of ‘the meeting’ in Belgium, 1860s","authors":"Martin Schoups","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2024.2308343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2024.2308343","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"26 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139597880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first Portuguese parliamentary debate after the Black Death of 1348: the Lisbon Cortes of 1352","authors":"Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2023.2292933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2023.2292933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"16 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139156293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A missed opportunity of supranationalism? The drafting of European political authority in the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, 1949–51","authors":"Hanna-Mari Kivistö, Taru Haapala","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2023.2274214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2023.2274214","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines postwar supranational parliamentarism by focusing on the political role of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe. While the historical significance of the Assembly has been re-investigated, less attention has been given to the political role of the parliamentary body of the Council in the framework of political theorizing of postwar parliamentarism. Neither has the parliamentary role of the Assembly been much discussed in studies about European integration. It is often argued that as the Consultative Assembly was given merely a deliberative role, without legislative or executive powers, it bears less political significance. Contrary to this view, our article shows, how after the founding of the Council of Europe in 1948, the limited powers of the Assembly were renegotiated, and the representatives tried to challenge the ‘consultative’ role of the body particularly in the framework of the drafting of the so-called ‘European political authority’ in 1949–51. By analyzing the minutes of plenary sessions and committee reports, we turn our attention to the views and arguments presented by contemporaries and argue that there was a missed opportunity for the Assembly to become supranational that could have potentially influenced the course of the European integration.","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"50 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136348457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bestowing charity: war widows and the Privy Council during the Williamite Revolution in Scotland (1688–91)","authors":"Gillian Sarah Macdonald","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2023.2279382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2023.2279382","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTDespite an ongoing war and rumours of treason and brutality, the Scottish Privy Council adopted a widespread charitable effort to repatriate and aid destitute women and children during the Williamite Revolution (1688–91). The contributions of soldiers and sailors to the Scottish armies during the Revolution meant their dependents often had to file for assistance. Wartime demands increased the scope by which women could interact with the central authorities and challenged their conceptions of the power and legitimacy of government. Focusing on the petitionary records contained within the Scottish Treasury register and the Scottish Privy Council records, this article shows women’s interactions with the political process and the process for petitioning for charitable relief. The petitioning process was rigorous, complex, and tied to the administration’s authority. Women’s success in this arena illustrates their understanding and knowledge in maneuvering within the political process. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 At the time, the High Commissioner was George Melville, first Earl of Melville.2 Act In favours of Barbara McDonald and the Lord of the theasurie ther precept this 19 May 1690, Exchequer Records: Treasury Vouchers, Commissioners of Treasury: Charity, 1689–1691, E28/470/17, National Records for Scotland, Edinburgh. [henceforth Charity 1689–1691, NRS].3 R. Mason, ‘Women, Marital Status, and Law: The Marital Spectrum in Seventeenth-Century Glasgow,’ Journal of British Studies 58, (2019), pp. 787–804 at footnote 2 provides a helpful scale for measuring money. Mason states that by 1600 £12 Scots was equivalent to £1 Sterling. Act In favours of Barbara McDonald 19 May 1690, Charity, 1689–1691, E28/470/17, NRS.4 R. S. Rait, The Parliaments of Scotland (Glasgow, 1924), p. 158; J. R. Young, ‘The Scottish Parliament and the Covenanting Heritage of Constitutional Reform’, in A. Macinnes and J. Ohlmeyer (eds), The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century: Awkward Neighbours (Dublin, 2002), p. 230.5 Rait, Parliaments of Scotland; J.R Young, ‘The 1689 Convention of Estates and the Parliament of 1689–90 in Scotland: Securing the Williamite Regime in the Context of the War in Ireland’, in A. Soddu and F. Soddu (eds), Assemblee rappresentative, autonomie territoriali, culture politiche (Sassari, 2011), pp. 229–30; J.R. Young, ‘The Scottish Parliament and the War for the Three Kingdoms, 1639–1651’, Parliaments Estates and Representation 21, (2001), p. 104.6 D. Patrick, ‘People and Parliament in Scotland, 1689–1702,’ (University of St. Andrews, PhD thesis, 2002).7 For more on the Covenanting era see: Young, ‘Covenanting Heritage,’ pp. 226–51; A.I. Macinnes, ‘The Multiple Kingdoms of Britain and Ireland: The “British Problem,”’ in B. Coward (ed), A Companion to Stuart Britain (Oxford, 2008); A. Shukman, Bishops and Covenanters: The Church in Scotland 1688–1691 (Edinburgh, 2013); J.R. Young, ","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"119 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135138493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic references to political science in Austrian parliamentary debates","authors":"Marion Löffler","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2023.2275853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2023.2275853","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the image of political science in Austria by tracing and analysing references to political scientists and their research in parliamentary debates. Since they were first established in Austrian universities in the 1960s, the social sciences and especially political science have been contested and sometimes accused of being forms of political (left-wing) ideology. This politicization has given references to political science a potential rhetorical value in parliamentary debates between oppositional and governmental factions. The parliamentary records of the Austrian Parliament (National Council) were searched for references to political science and several were found from 1966 until 2021. An analysis of these results identified three main rhetorical strategies at work in references to political science in plenary debates. The declining use of these strategies over time indicates a growing acceptance of political science and a positive view of political science expertise. Nevertheless, in recent debates right-wing populist parliamentary members in particular have continued to perpetuate and reinforce a negative image of political science and political scientists.","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"129 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political science in parliaments. Case studies on selected Western parliaments after the Second World War","authors":"Kari Palonen, Anna Kronlund","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2023.2274213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2023.2274213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"30 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135972847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rhetoric of political science in parliament. A study of Westminster debates after the Second World War","authors":"Kari Palonen","doi":"10.1080/02606755.2023.2274216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2023.2274216","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A parliamentary perspective on the politics of the academic political science connects my former interest in the history of the discipline with parliamentary studies. This article continues the discussion in a previous article of mine on the German Bundestag. The conceptual point lies in a mutual suspicion between parliamentarians and academics regarding politics. In this present study I analyse Westminster debates on the concept of ‘political science’. Possible similarities between British and (West-)German debates appear in how this applies to academic authorities, in the increasing number of parliamentarians having studied political science at university, as well as in the distance towards academic political scientists. However, in the Bundestag political science is understood in academic and disciplinary terms and references to it serve for the members’ politicking. In Westminster a concept of political science frequently refers to a intellectual tradition persisting also in the late twentieth century and it emphasizes analysing political changes as challenged to political science.","PeriodicalId":53586,"journal":{"name":"Parliaments, Estates and Representation","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136103929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}