international team of contributors coordinated by two ongoing research projects and backed
by previous specialised publications and collabora tive activities. Indeed the ensuing …

… Politics of Dissensus tiene por objeto reivindicar el papel del razonamiento argumentativo
y el debate … recuperar el valor de guía del debate parlamentario para la práctica política. El …

… The aim of the book is to open discussion on parliaments as … analysis of parliamentary
politics that does not restrict itself to the study of elections, the political parties and the government-…

… (EP), still often criticised for not being a fully fledged parliament or for possessing only … role
in the EU political system. The parliamentary tools of dissensus, debate and deliberation, both …

… In parliamentary procedure dissensus and debate are institutionalised: no motion is
approved without a thorough examination of and confrontation among imaginable alternatives. …

… For the parliamentary-style thinking, dissensus and debate are attested already in Sir
Thomas Smith’s De republica anglorum, written in 1560s, and published posthumously in 1583. …

… of parliamentary politics, the concept of parliamentary politics … that for politics the dissensus
between perspectives and debate … of dissensus been granted such a constitutive status as in …

… For Thomas Smith, the parliamentary debate follows the Renaissance deliberative rhetoric
of arguing in utramque partem.‘In the disputing is a mervelous good order used in the lower …

… She promotes a rhetoric of dissensus whereby disagreement is … of politically diverging
groups. Putting it in a nutshell, rhetoric of dissensus is an accurate description of parliamentary …

… political and the potential aim of political institutions is to weaken the destructiveness of political
dissensus. … polarised form of parliamentary dissensus, the goal of the political actors is to …