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Feeling Political in Parliament: Rules, Regulations, and the Rostrum: Germany 1849-1951

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on four moments in German parliamentary history in which parliamentarians debated the regulation of speech and behaviour and established an emotional template for it. The evolution of German parliamentary history formed part of the wider history of participatory politics. The multiple changes of constitutions, parliamentary regulations, and parliamentary locations make for a rich case study. The rules that emerged speak to the inherent logic of the institution of parliament: enabling the ‘orderly conduct’ of politics and guaranteeing the ‘dignity’ of the chamber, yet allowing, and channelling, spontaneous expression of emotions such as (specific kinds of) laughter, cheering, angry interjections, the noise produced by, and used for, objections, and ultimately unrest. In their relationality to the bodies of parliamentarians, these spaces and rules reflected assumptions about emotions, democratic or otherwise.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFeeling Political
Subtitle of host publicationEmotions and Institutions since 1789
EditorsUte Frevert, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Francesco Buscemi, Philipp Nielsen
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherPalgrave MacMillan
Pages59-90
Number of pages32
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-89858-8
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-89860-1, 978-3-030-89857-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
PublisherPalgrave MacMillan
ISSN (Print)2946-5958
ISSN (Electronic)2946-5966

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