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Parliamentarisation as Politicisation

2021

Understanding politics as a contingent and controversial activity, politicisation refers to those activities that create or make visible the political quality in the phenomena in question. Parliamentarisation is a distinct strategy of politicisation. In this chapter, parliament refers to a certain procedural and institutional ideal type of acting politically. The parliamentary way of politicising acting and thinking forms a Gedankenbild, a mental image. It is an ideal type that one-sidedly accentuates and intensifies the political way of thinking. The parliamentary way of proceeding politically transcends the given polity: ‘parliament’ is not primarily a parliament ‘of’ a unit, such as the …

The Role of Parliament in Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Southeast Asia in International Parliamentary Forums

2021

Parliament has its role in supporting Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). SDG number 16 on peace, justice, and strong institution states one indicator of a legislative institution (for “responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative”, that the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) commits to achieve. However, parliament must support the government in achieving all SDG programs as stated in Agenda 2030. What is the role of parliament in this and how to achieve it? This paper aims to show that the role of parliament in SDG is beyond the traditional legislative role of legislating, budgeting and overseeing the government, but more on representing people, meaning channeling people’s voice a…

Définir et typologiser l’entrisme à partir des expériences au sein du Parti Travailliste britannique au 20e s.

2021

International audience; La tactique entriste est une tactique connue dans le champ politique, particulièrement chez les observateurs de la gauche, cependant aucun travail universitaire ne lui a entièrement été dédié et, si l’on sait identifier la pratique entriste, aucune définition universelle de celle-ci n’a encore été formulée. Cette communication se propose de réfléchir à une tentative de délimitation et par conséquence de définition du phénomène de l’entrisme. En effet, l’entrisme est une notion compliquée à délimiter et peut s’incarner sous différentes formes : il peut être clandestin ou à drapeau déployé. Le groupe infiltré peut être raccroché à une organisation extérieure, exister s…

The Advent of Open Source Democracy and Wikipolitics: Challenges, Threats and Opportunities for Democratic Discourse

2011

It has been claimed that the Web 2.0, the open source movement, and the emerging mode of peer production have inaugurated a new era of debate about openness, participation, and cooperation as bedrocks for rebuilding the civilizations of the modern world. By way of introducing the concept of wikipolitics, this paper examines whether, and if so how, politics and democracies can benefit from this emerging participatory spirit and modern ICTs, and to document possible dangers of such a shift in the democratic process. peerReviewed

Speaking of politics in parliament : experiences of writing a book on the digitized Bundestag debates, 1949–2017

2022

This article consists of ex post methodological reflections on the procedures and practices that I applied in my monograph Politik als parlamentarischer Begriff: Perspektiven aus den Plenardebatten des Deutschen Bundestags (Leverkusen, 2021). The book analyses through 18 parliamentary terms the conceptualization of politics in German Bundestag plenary debates from 1949 to 2017. The book was an illustration of my long-term aim of combining political theorizing with the empirical analysis of debate. In writing the book, my guiding idea was to apply Ludwig Wittgenstein’s point, that the meaning of a concept lies in its use, to an analysis of how parliamentary debates open a perspective on the …

Deep and Proximate Determinants of the World Income Distribution

2019

This paper studies the deep and proximate determinants of the evolution of the cross-country distribution of GDP per worker in the period 1960–2008 by a novel method based on an information criterion. We find that countries of our sample follow three distinctive growth regimes identified by two deep determinants, namely life expectancy at birth in 1960 and the share of Catholics in 1965, and that each regime is characterized by non-linearities. Growth regimes appear to be the main cause of the increased inequality and polarization, while technological catch-up, proxied by the initial level of GDP per worker, acts in the opposite direction. Finally, human capital marginally reduces polarizat…

The loving heart of a mother or a greedy politician? : media representations of female presidents in Liberia and Malawi

2016

Pro gradu-tutkielmassani tarkastelen miten kahta afrikkalaista naispresidenttiä - Liberian presidentti Ellen Johnson Sirleafiä, ja Malawin presidentti Joyce Bandaa on kuvattu mediassa. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on ymmärtää miten eri medialähteet(malawilaiset, liberialaiset, afrikkalaiset ja kansainväliset mediat) ovat kuvanneet kahta naispresidenttiä, ja miten naispresidentit ovat tuoneet itsensä esille mediassa. Tutkimuskysymykset ovat keskittyneet sukupuoleen ja johtajuuteen: 1) miten sukupuoli on määritellyt afrikkalaisten naispresidenttien poliittisen johtajuuden englanninkielisten medialähteiden pohjalta? 2.) miten sukupuoli on määritellyt kyseisten presidenttien esittämisen mediassa? …

Emma Brockes ja Megan Rapinoe, Yksi elämä. Megan Rapinoen tarina

2021

Il futuro della politica nella coscienza delle nuove generazioni

2014

La questione della politica che, nel tempo delle incertezze, viene sempre più vissuta come qualcosa di estraneo alla vita quotidiana, si presenta ancora più complessa se affrontata dal punto di vista dei giovani, i cosiddetti “figli del disincanto”, i quali mostrano diffidenza nei confronti delle istituzioni politiche, percependole come qualcosa di cui è meglio non fidarsi e che va evitato. È pertanto pensabile oggi, nel tempo della globalizzazione, formare i giovani alla cura del bene comune? Come rilanciare una politica che sia dei giovani e finalizzata alla loro emancipazione? Sono interrogativi che oggi, nel tempo della post-modernità, esigono soluzioni di natura pedagogica: educare i g…

Public-service provision in clientelist political settlements: Lessons from Ghana's urban water sector

2015

The politics of public-service delivery continues to be neglected under the supposedly more context-sensitive post-Washington Consensus. Using interviews and documentary evidence from Ghana, this article provides an account of the networks of political interference and informal practices in Ghana's public water utility. It argues that, in order to understand why private-sector participation succeeds or fails and why similar arrangements have different outcomes across developing countries, we need to examine the effects of the informal institutional context, particularly the country-specific political settlement in which public-service provision operates.