An exposition of the work of the important intellectual historian and political theorist Quentin Skinner. The volume charts Skinner's work from the early 1960s onwards and is organized around five major themes: history; linguistic action; political thought; liberty and rhetoric.[...]
This book presents an alternative view to implicit and explicit assumptions on the relation between Parliament and Europe in contemporary Europe. It is common to assume European integration diminishes the influence of national parliaments and the European Parliament does not possess sufficient compe[...]
Currently, parliament as a political institution does not enjoy the best reputation. This book aims to recover less known political resources of the parliamentary mode of proceeding. The parliamentary procedure relies on regulating debates in a fair way and on constructing opposed perspectives on th[...]
Kari Palonen approaches the temporal and contingent activity of politics from four different angles. In the first section, his focus is on the ideal typical distinctions and classifications which may render the act of speaking about politics intelligible without reducing its contingency, thus allowi[...]