Hanna Bäck is a Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. She received her PhD from Uppsala University, and has previously held a position at University of Mannheim. Her research mainly focuses on political parties, legislators, governments, and cabinet ministers in parliamentary democracies. She has published extensively on these topics, for example in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Political Science Research and Methods. She is the co-author of the book, Parties, Parliaments and Legislative Speechmaking (Palgrave Macmillan).
Marc Debus is Professor of Comparative Government at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He studied Political Science, Sociology, History and Methods of Empirical Social Research at the Universities of Marburg and Mannheim and received his PhD from the University of Konstanz in 2006. His research interests include political institutions, in particular in multilevel systems, and their effects on the political behavior of voters and legislators, as well as party competition, coalition politics and decision making within parliaments and governments. His publications appeared, amongst others, in the Journal of Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Public Choice, West European Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Jorge M. Fernandes is Assistant Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Jorge received his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence. His main interests are representation, electoral systems, legislatures, political parties, and party competition. He has published extensively on these topics in inter allia, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Party Politics. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics.

• 1: Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus, and Jorge M. Fernandes: The Politics of Legislative Debates: An Introduction


• 2: Michael Laver: Analyzing the politics of legislative debate


• 3: Jonathan Slapin and Sven-Oliver Proksch: Theories and Empirical Applications of Legislative Debate


• 4: Andrew J. Taylor: Legislative Speech in Presidential Systems


• 5: Max Goplerud: Methods for Analyzing Parliamentary Debates


• 6: Jan Schwalbach and Christian Rauh: Collecting large-scale comparative text data on legislative debates


• 7: Alejandro Ecker and Martin Soto Payva: Legislative Debate in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies


• 8: Keith Dowding, Patrick Leslie, and Marija Taflaga: Legislative Debates in the Australian House of Representatives


• 9: Marcelo Jenny and Wolfgang C. Müller: Legislative Debates in the Austrian Nationalrat


• 10: Fabiano Santos, Fernando Guarnieri, and Nara Salles: Legislative Debates in the Brazilian Câmara dos Deputados


• 11: Christopher Cochrane, Jean-François Godbout, and Jason Vandenbeukel: Legislative Debates in the Canadian House of Commons


• 12: Eduardo Alemán, Juan Pablo Micozzi, and Iñaki Sagarzazu: Legislative Debates in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies


• 13: David M. Willumsen: Legislative Debates in the Danish Folketing


• 14: Analía Gómez Vidal and Sebastián Vallejo Vera: Legislative Debates in the Ecuadorian Congress


• 15: Allan Sikk and Priit Vinkel: Legislative Debates in the Estonian Riigikogu


• 16: Miriam Sorace: Legislative Debates in the European Parliament


• 17: Corentin Poyet and Tapio Raunio: Legislative Debates in the Finnish Eduskunta


• 18: Lennard Alke, Sylvain Brouard, and Olivier Rozenberg: Legislative Debates in the French Assemblée Nationale


• 19: Jochen Müller, Christian Stecker, and Andreas Blätte: Legislative Debates in the German Bundestag


• 20: Edalina Rodrigues Sanches and António Luís Dias: Legislative Debates in the Parliament of Ghana


• 21: Yani Kartalis and Marina Costa Lobo: Legislative Debates in the Greek Parliament


• 22: Agnar Freyr Helgason, Indriði H. Indriðason, and Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson: Legislative Debates in the Icelandic Alþingi


• 23: Alexander Herzog, Slava Jankin Mikhaylov, and Liam Weeks: Legislative Debates in the Irish Dáil


• 24: Or Tuttnauer and Chen Friedberg: Legislative Debates in the Israeli Knesset


• 25: Daniela Giannetti and Andrea Pedrazzani: Legislative Debates in the Italian Camera dei Deputati


• 26: Daniel M. Smith: Legislative Debates in the Japanese National Diet


• 27: Nikolaos Frantzeskakis, Michael Wahman , and T. Murat Yildirim: Legislative Debate in the Malawi Parliament


• 28: Eric Magar: Legislative Debates in Mexico's Cámara de Diputados


• 29: Simon Otjes and Tom Louwerse: Legislative Debates in the Dutch Tweede


• 30: Moritz Osnabrügge: Legislative Debates in the New Zealand House of Representatives


• 31: Martin G. Søyland and Bjørn Høyland: Legislative Debates in the Norwegian Stortinget


• 32: Kamil Marcinkiewicz and Michael Jankowski: Legislative Debates in the Polish Sejm


• 33: Jorge M. Fernandes and Miguel Won: Legislative Debates in the Portuguese Assembleia da República


• 34: Joan-Josep Vallbé and Marc Sanjaume: Legislative Debates in the Spanish Congreso de los Diputados


• 35: Markus Baumann, Hanna Bäck, and Royce Carroll: Legislative Debates in the Swedish Riksdag


• 36: Elena Frech, Niels Goet, and Simon Hug: The Politics of Legislative Debate in Switzerland


• 37: T. Murat Yildirim: Legislative Debates in the Turkish Grand National Assembly


• 38: Jack Blumenau and Roberta Damiani: Legislative Debates in the British House of Commons


• 39: David Gelman and Max Goplerud: Legislative Debates in the US Congress


• 40: Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus, and Jorge M. Fernandes: Unpacking comparative patterns in legislative debates

A comprehensive study which looks at the politics of legislative debates in 33 liberal democracies in Europe, North America and Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. This book offers an account of the rules and practices determining floor access, with a particular focus on gender, seniority, and legislative party positions.