Parliament as a Conceptual Nexus

Ihalainen, Pasi; Ilie, Cornelia; Палонен, Кари

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“…19 In current research, parliamentarism is seen as having developed gradually through a transnational discursive process which started in the 18th century. 20 Lagerroth's tendency to view the Age of Liberty in excessively modern terms was rejected by many academics as subjective 21 or 'unhistorical' already in the 1910s. 22 But after Lagerroth received a professorship in 1929, his works created a historiographical tradition that interpreted the Swedish regime as the most advanced political culture in 18th-century Europe.…”

Section: Continuities In Swedish Constitutional History After the Rusmentioning

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The 18th-century traditions of representation in a new age of revolution

Ihalainen

2014

Scandinavian Journal of History

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Section: Continuities In Swedish Constitutional History After the Rusmentioning

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The 18th-century traditions of representation in a new age of revolution

Ihalainen

2014

Scandinavian Journal of History

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“…We suggest that parliaments and especially parliamentary debates can be seen as nexuses of societal power relations and ideologies expressed through the use of language side by side with other forms of physical action (see also Ihalainen, Ilie & Palonen 2016). Our discussion consists of five parts: After having now briefly (i) summarised the state of the art in language-oriented political history especially from the point of view of parliamentary history, we next (ii) explain the analytical concepts we would like to add to the toolkit of political historians in order to facilitate methodological rethinking.…”

Section: A New Perspective To Political Historymentioning

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Integrating a Nexus: the history of political discourse and language policy research

Ihalainen

Saarinen

2019

Rethinking History

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Historians of political discourse and language policy researchers should join forces to develop methods of textual analysis that help to integrate political and intellectual history. They could do so by focusing their analysis on interconnections between material realities, human physical action, practices and structures, as well as institutions and ideologies as discursive constructs. Such a version of soft constructivism underscoring the discursive nature of much of politics encourages historians to analyse past political discourses more systematically. Concepts such as nexus, historical body, mobility and discursive transfers borrowed from language research deepen our analytical understanding of the multi-level dynamics of policy-making, directing attention to links between various debates as well as to transnational transfers. Our empirical examples are derived from Swedish and Finnish constitutional debates in the last phase of the First World War, but similar research strategies are applicable to the analysis of political discourse in any context.

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“…This is largely connected with the long history of parliamentarisation, de-parliamentarisation and re-parliamentarisation of political institutions in Europe (Ihalainen et al, 2016) and the long history of the democratic culture of North America. The corollary of the foregoing is that these parliaments have developed a strong culture of deliberation, representation, responsibility and sovereignty which constitute the core concepts of parliamentarism and distinguish parliaments from other assemblies (Ihalainen et al, 2016). In the Global South, however, especially in Nigeria, both democracy and the legislature are latecomers, riding in on the third wave of democratisation (Huntington, 1991).…”

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‘The legislature is the engine room of democracy’: Constructing ideological worldviews through proximisation strategies in Nigerian Senate debates

Inya

2020

Discourse & Society

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This study investigates how legislators utilise proximisation strategies to construct ideological worldviews in Nigerian Senate debates about democratic consolidation and the legitimacy of the legislature. For data, samples were purposively drawn from a 1.9 million-word corpus of Nigerian Senate debates constructed for a broader research and subjected to qualitative discourse analysis. The analysis reveals that legislators’ discursive acts prompt the conceptual organisation of the discourse space such that the activities of the executive are construed to be inimical to democratic consolidation and the legitimacy of the legislature, whereas legislators construe themselves positively as resilient defenders of democracy and the legislative institution. Through proximisation strategies, legislators engage in the ideological discourse of positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation relative to the executive. This paper contributes to our understanding of the tenuous and polarised relationship amongst arms of government under a presidential political system in an emerging democracy.

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Parliament as a Conceptual Nexus

Cited by 20 publications

References 9 publications

The 18th-century traditions of representation in a new age of revolution

The 18th-century traditions of representation in a new age of revolution

Integrating a Nexus: the history of political discourse and language policy research

‘The legislature is the engine room of democracy’: Constructing ideological worldviews through proximisation strategies in Nigerian Senate debates

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