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The Politics of Agenda in the Union Debates

Taru Haapala

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TypologyPoliticsPolitical agendaPolitical sciencePolitical economyRhetorical questionMotion of no confidenceCharacter (symbol)Public administrationTopos theoryInventio

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The chapter consists of a discussion of the politicisation of the agenda in the Oxford and Cambridge Unions’ public debates roughly between the reform acts in 1832 and 1867. As well as relating the setting of political agenda to the classical rhetorical tradition of inventio, Haapala contrasts the Union practices to the parliamentary setting of debating on both sides of an issue. The chapter also proposes that the Union public debates showed the use of certain rhetorical commonplaces, or topoi, which are named as principle, expediency, character and vote of confidence. Finally, Haapala offers a typology of political agenda setting in the Unions.

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2016-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35128-5_4