Parliamentary Debates in Statutory Interpretation: A Question of Admissibility or of Weight?

The article was first published in the McGill Law Journal. Un résumé en français est disponible.

Debating the European debt crisis: Government leadership, party ideology and supranational integration as focal points of parliamentary debates in Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom. ACES Cases No. 2012.3

Parliamentary debates about the resolution of the EU debt crisis seem to provide a good example for the frequently assumed “politicizationˮ of European governance. Against this background, the paper argues that in order to make sense of this assumption, a clearer differentiation of three thematic focal points of controversies – with regard to the assessment of government leadership, concerning the debate between competing party ideologies within the left/right dimension, and with regard to the assessment of supranational integration – is needed. Applying this threefold distinction, the paper uses a theory of differential Europeanization to explain differences in the thematic structure of debates in the Austrian Nationalrat, the British House of Commons, and the German Bundestag. Empirically, the paper is based on data gained from the computer-based coding of plenary debates about the resolution of the European debt crisis between 2010 and 2011.

The parliamentary debates (Hansard).

Latest issue consulted: 6th ser., v. 1.

The parliamentary debates.

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Cobbett's parliamentary debates, during the ... session of the ... Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the Kingdom of Great Britain ...

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The parliamentary debates (official report).

Title from vol. t.p.

Parliamentary debates : official report /

Title from cover.

The Parliamentary debates: official report /

Vol. 1 also called 1st ser.

Parliamentary debates /

Description based on: Vol. 45, 2nd session, 3rd Parliament (1907/1908).

Parliamentary debates [microform].

Published under the superintendence of T. C. Hansard.

Parliamentary debates, Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly.

Mode of access: Internet.