Res publica: revista de filosofía política Nº27 (2012)
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- PublicationOpen AccessDisputing the ‘(Un)parliamentary’:Learning Rules of Debate in the Early Finnish Eduskunta(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2012) Pekonen, OnniThe article examines the learning and adoption of international parliamen-tary rules and practices in the work of the Finnish parliament, the Eduskunta. The article concentrates on the rules of debate in the early Eduskunta and analyses how the character and quality of plenary speech was disputed within the framework of the Parliament Act of 1906 and the Eduskunta’s Rules of Procedure. By analysing debates of the early Eduskunta from 1907 and 1908 as well as Finnish newspaper material, the article illustrates how the learning and establishment of Finnish parliamentary practices evolved around disputes over the notions of ‘parliamentary’ and ‘unparliamentary’
- PublicationOpen AccessLanguage Rights as Collective Rights:Some Conceptual Considerations on Language Rights(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2012) Toscano Méndez, ManuelStephen May holds that language rights have been insufficiently recog-nized, or just rejected as problematic, in human rights theory and practice. Defending the “human rights approach to language rights”, he claims that language rights should be accorded the status of fundamental human rights, recognized as such by states and international organizations. This article ar-gues that the notion of language rights is far from clear. According to May, one key reason for rejecting the claim that language rights should be consid-ered human rights is the widespread belief that language rights are collec-tive rights. In order to address this kind of objection, the collective character attributed to language rights must be carefully assessed, distinguishing two different views of what a collective right is
- PublicationOpen AccessParadoxes of Emancipation(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2012) Lasa Ochoteco, CristinaThis paper relates the concepts of servitude, censorship and emancipation, the point of contact between them being the idea of the necessary consent of the subject and his paradoxical wish not to be free. Étienne de la Boétie, in the middle of the sixteenth century, called it “voluntary servitude”, and claimed that the master’s supremacy does not lie in his power, but in the legitimacy conferred on it by the consent of the servant. During the seventeenth century, the censorship of the Holy Office took the place of the master and regulated free thought and the editing of books. Baltasar Gracián was one writer who confronted this difficulty with ingenuity. A century later, the ideal of emanci-pation reverts to Étienne de La Boétie’s proposal in the sense of pointing out that the cause of not abandoning the old doctrinal tutelage does not ascribe to an external reality. One response to this paradox was the collective project of the Encyclopédie, led by Denis Diderot
- PublicationOpen AccessDemocracy as a Way of Life: Critical Reflections on a Deweyan Theme(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2012) Rosales, José MaríaThis article aims to critically assess John Dewey’s ideal of “democracy as a way of life”, an evocative though elusive moral and political ideal linked to both his communal notion of democracy and his reformist view of liberal-ism. Beyond the school, where citizenship education begins, Dewey claims that individuals learn democratic habits when they associate and participate in political activities, which are not solely confined to political institutions. Exploring Dewey’s democratic theory invites a twofold account. It takes to contextualize Dewey’s views in light of the political debates of his time, in particular the interwar debates on the crisis of liberalism and democracy. And it takes to examine his democratic thought in terms of educational theory and policy. Both aspects integrate into the argumen
- PublicationOpen AccessParliamentary Procedure as an Inventory of Disputes:A Comparison between Jeremy Bentham and Thomas Erskine May(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2012) Palonen, KariParliamentary politics is inherently procedural. The parliament debates and decides only questions that have been put on its agenda. Two famous tracts on the British parliamentary procedure, Jeremy Bentham’s Essay on Political Tactics and Thomas Erskine May’s A Treatise upon the Law, Privi-leges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament provide an inventory of con-troversies for competent parliamentarians. Both tracts regard parliamentary procedure itself as controversial, and both discuss how to deal with the con-troversies in a fair manner. The tracts differ in style: Bentham, relying on his own parliamentary imagination, is able to identify possible items of dispute, whereas May’s interpretation of parliamentary procedure includes the history of parliamentary controversies. For both, playing with time is an inherent part of the Westminster procedure, based on a combination of spending and saving time, in linking the parliamentary itinerary of the motions to the parliamen-tary calendar. Both strongly defend the Parliament as an exemplary delibera-tive assembly. May, however, thematises the increase of agenda items and the increasing scarcity of parliamentary time as well as ways of preventing par-liamentary paralysis due to obstruction. This leads May to revise the fair play principle to include the fair distribution of parliamentary time
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