Journal articles: 'Hansard'

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Kumala, Aleksandra E. "Irlandzkość i busking – artystyczne habitusy Glena Hansarda." Przestrzenie Teorii, no. 31 (December 6, 2019): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pt.2019.31.8.

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The article analyses how crucial the Irish origin and long-term busking experience were in shaping the artistic habitus of Glen Hansard. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s terminology and Benedict Anderson’s characteristic of “imagined communities”, the author presents the variety of ways in which Hansard’s “habitus of the Irish busker” reveals itself. Seen from the perspective of the sociology of art, the artist’s statements, lyrics, music videos, projects and social initiatives reflect the point of view of a niche artist, strongly dissociating himself from the “entertainment” sector. They also show how grounded Hansard’s position in the artistic field was before his unexpected 2007 Oscar win for Best Original Song.

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Aziz, Nazli. "POVERTY DEBATES IN THE DEWAN RAKYAT OF THE MALAYSIAN PARLIAMENT." Jurnal Kajian Wilayah 8, no. 2 (December 29, 2017): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.14203/jkw.v8i2.776.

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This article highlights the nature of parliamentary debates in the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) of the Malaysian Parliament related to the poverty issues in Malaysia. Using qualitative research technique, it focuses on the untold story of poverty in Malaysia that buried in the Dewan Rakyat Hansard. Analysing poverty issues qualitatively, however, can be ambiguous and open to challenge. Despite the success story of poverty eradication in Malaysia, poverty issues have always been debated in almost every parliament proceeding in the Dewan Rakyat. If Malaysia is so successful in eradicating poverty, why the Members of Parliament (MPs) are still debating the issue in the Dewan Rakyat to date? To understand this issue, it uses Hansard records of the Dewan Rakyat (1990-2012) to narrate the multifaceted of poverty issues in both rural and urban consistencies in Malaysia, qualitatively. It reevaluates the previous works on poverty in Malaysia by examining the debates extracted from the Dewan Rakyat Hansard. The aim is to understand whether and to what extent the poverty eradication agendas have benefited communities and spilled over throughout the constituencies in Malaysia.Key words: The Malaysian Parliament, Hansard, Members of Parliament, Dewan Rakyat; poverty eradication AbstrakArtikel ini menyajikan prediksi perdebatan tentang isu kemiskinan di Malaysia yang diungkapkan di Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, Parlemen Malaysia. Dengan menggunakan teknik penelitian kualitatif, fokus utamanya adalah masih adanya isu kemiskinan di Malaysia yang disematkan dalam Pernyataan Resmi (Hansard) Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat. Namun demikian, menganalisis isu kemiskinan secara kualitatif akan mengundang keabsahan, dan bersifat ambigu serta terbuka terhadap tantangan. Terlepas dari keberhasilan pemberantasan kemiskinan di Malaysia, masalah kemiskinan selalu diperdebatkan hampir di setiap sidang parlemen di Dewan Rakyat. Jika Malaysia berhasil memberantas kemiskinan, mengapa anggota parlemen masih memperdebatkan isu kemiskinan di Dewan Rakyat sampai sekarang? Untuk memahami masalah ini, catatan Pernyataan Resmi, Hansard, Dewan Rakyat (1990-2012) digunakan untuk menggambarkan komposisi isu kemiskinan di daerah perkotaan dan pedesaanndi Malaysia secara kualitatif. Kajian-kajian sebelumnya mengenai kemiskinan di Malaysia dievaluasi kembali dengan meninjau kembali perdebatan yang dikutip dari Pernyataan Resmi, Hansard, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat. Tujuan utamanya adalah untuk memahami apakah ada dan sejauh mana pengentasan kemiskinan menguntungkan masyarakat dan menyebar ke seluruh wilayah di Malaysia.Kata kunci: Parlemen Malaysia, Hansard (Pernyataan Resmi), Anggota Parlemen, Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, pengentasan kemiskinan.

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Cribb, V. Michael, and Shivani Rochford. "The Transcription and Representation of Spoken Political Discourse in the UK House of Commons." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 2 (December 23, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n2p1.

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This paper considers the representation of spoken political discourse through the transcription practices of the House of Commons. It considers how the Hansard method of transcription represents the oral debates during the weekly parliamentary sessions of Prime Minister’s questions in three areas: lexical and grammatical fidelity, performance characteristics and interruptions from the audience. The paper also considers how accurately and faithfully speakers in the House quote from Hansard during these sessions as they pursue their arguments. The findings suggest that while Hansard does what it purports to do, modern transcription methods and digital representations necessitate additional tools to augment this system. We argue the case for a more representational, multi-tool approach to the transcription of discourse.

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Grist, Deirdre. "Indexing legislative text: Alberta Hansard." Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing: Volume 23, Issue 3 23, no. 3 (April 1, 2003): 138–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2003.23.3.7.

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Foxlee, Neil. "Pivots and Levers." Contributions to the History of Concepts 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 75–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/choc.2018.130105.

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This article examines how politicians have applied evaluative-descriptive terms as rhetorical levers to a pivotal basic concept, illustrating the broader rhetorical strategy of dissociation identified by Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. It focuses on political debates around capitalism that took place in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century British politics, including the period following the financial crisis of 2008. Drawing on data from the Enhanced Hansard Corpus and Hansard Online, together with other contemporary texts, it combines quantitative and qualitative analyses using a corpus-based approach to identify salient items that are then placed in their discursive and sociopolitical contexts. More generally, the article seeks to bridge part of the gap between Koselleckian Begriff sgeschichte and Quentin Skinner’s rhetorical approach by applying what is in effect a historical-pragmatic approach to the history of political concepts.

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Kruger, Haidee, Bertus van Rooy, and Adam Smith. "Register Change in the British and Australian Hansard (1901-2015)." Journal of English Linguistics 47, no. 3 (August 12, 2019): 183–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424219857114.

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“Colloquialization,” and anti-colloquial effects such as “densification,” have been shown to shape register change in English, with Australian English showing stronger effects of colloquiality than British English. Parliamentary Hansard records are at the intersection of writing and speech and are subject to various influencing factors possibly leading to change in this register, which we represent in a conceptual model. We apply Biber’s (1988) method of multidimensional analysis to examine the co-occurrence of linguistic features in the British and Australian Hansard over five consecutive time periods. The data provide evidence of shared as well as differentiated effects of colloquialization and densification across the two varieties. The evidence also points to a new type of anti-colloquial trend observed in the parliamentary register, whereby presentation of information appears to be taking the place of a more interactive and interpersonally oriented style, a trend we term “monologization.”

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Shirley, Rosemary. "Southampton: "New British Painting" at John Hansard." Circa, no. 108 (2004): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25564153.

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Mollin, Sandra. "The Hansard hazard: gauging the accuracy of British parliamentary transcripts." Corpora 2, no. 2 (November 2007): 187–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2007.2.2.187.

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Large databases of transcribed speech, downloadable from the Internet, are a corpus linguist's dream. They turn into a corpus linguist's nightmare, however, when the transcriptions are not linguistically accurate. In this paper I assess the suitability of the Hansard parliamentary transcripts (200 million words, downloadable) as a corpus linguistic resource, comparing a sample of the official transcript to a transcript made from a recording of a House of Commons session. The findings are that, as could be expected from earlier research, the transcripts omit performance characteristics of spoken language, such as incomplete utterances or hesitations, as well as any type of extrafactual, contextual talk (e.g., about turn-taking). Moreover, however, the transcribers and editors also alter speakers' lexical and grammatical choices towards more conservative and formal variants. Linguists ought, therefore, to be cautious in their use of the Hansard transcripts and, generally, in the use of transcriptions that have not been made for linguistic purposes.

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Dix, Emily, Rosalind Guldner, and Kate Laukys. "Indexing the living document: a Hansard case study." Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing 38, no. 2 (June 2020): 133–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/indexer.2020.14.

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Ormerod, David. "Hansard Invitations and Confessions in the Criminal Trial." International Journal of Evidence & Proof 4, no. 3 (July 2000): 147–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/136571270000400301.

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Slembrouck, Stef. "The parliamentary Hansard ‘verbatim’ report: the written construction of spoken discourse." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 1, no. 2 (May 1992): 101–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394709200100202.

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In this article I want to contribute to the critical linguistic analysis of discourse representation practices in an institutional context. I focus on the minutes of the British parliamentary proceedings. My method is that of a detailed comparison of the printed text of the report against transcripts of the spoken debates. I begin by proposing two central premises for a theory of discourse representation. Applying these to the Hansard data, two fundamental tendencies are noted which reflect the impact of macro social-linguistic determinants on discourse. These I also analyse in the light of their attending ideologies of communication. Thus, one can put forward the existence of a wider ‘representational culture’ which is typical for a literate society like Britain (and whose workings also affect linguistic theory). In addition, I take up the idea that institutions provide the level at which social formations are instantiated and transformed. In this way, I show that an understanding of the Hansard practices also requires one to pay attention to factors which are specific to Parliament itself and which bring about a transformation of the culturally dominant ‘verbatim style’.

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Archer, Dawn. "Negotiating difference in political contexts: An exploration of Hansard." Language Sciences 68 (July 2018): 22–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2017.12.005.

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Archer, Dawn. "Mapping Hansard Impression Management Strategies through Time and Space." Studia Neophilologica 89, sup1 (October 19, 2017): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2017.1370981.

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Stojanov, Riste, Gorjan Popovski, Gjorgjina Cenikj, Barbara Koroušić Seljak, and Tome Eftimov. "A Fine-Tuned Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers Model for Food Named-Entity Recognition: Algorithm Development and Validation." Journal of Medical Internet Research 23, no. 8 (August 9, 2021): e28229. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/28229.

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Background Recently, food science has been garnering a lot of attention. There are many open research questions on food interactions, as one of the main environmental factors, with other health-related entities such as diseases, treatments, and drugs. In the last 2 decades, a large amount of work has been done in natural language processing and machine learning to enable biomedical information extraction. However, machine learning in food science domains remains inadequately resourced, which brings to attention the problem of developing methods for food information extraction. There are only few food semantic resources and few rule-based methods for food information extraction, which often depend on some external resources. However, an annotated corpus with food entities along with their normalization was published in 2019 by using several food semantic resources. Objective In this study, we investigated how the recently published bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) model, which provides state-of-the-art results in information extraction, can be fine-tuned for food information extraction. Methods We introduce FoodNER, which is a collection of corpus-based food named-entity recognition methods. It consists of 15 different models obtained by fine-tuning 3 pretrained BERT models on 5 groups of semantic resources: food versus nonfood entity, 2 subsets of Hansard food semantic tags, FoodOn semantic tags, and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms food semantic tags. Results All BERT models provided very promising results with 93.30% to 94.31% macro F1 scores in the task of distinguishing food versus nonfood entity, which represents the new state-of-the-art technology in food information extraction. Considering the tasks where semantic tags are predicted, all BERT models obtained very promising results once again, with their macro F1 scores ranging from 73.39% to 78.96%. Conclusions FoodNER can be used to extract and annotate food entities in 5 different tasks: food versus nonfood entities and distinguishing food entities on the level of food groups by using the closest Hansard semantic tags, the parent Hansard semantic tags, the FoodOn semantic tags, or the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms semantic tags.

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BENNION, FRANCIS. "Hansard — Help or Hindrance? A Draftsman's View of Pepper v. Hart." Statute Law Review 14, no. 3 (1993): 149–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/slr/14.3.149.

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Lim, Preston Jordan. "Parliamentary Debate as a Driver of Military Justice Reform in Canada." Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société 35, no. 3 (December 2020): 437–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cls.2020.14.

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AbstractIn June 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada pronounced judgment in the case of R v Stillman, upholding the military justice system’s ability to try serious civil offences. The Stillman decision highlighted one key mechanism of military justice reform: court judgments. This article argues, however, that military legal experts have overlooked Parliamentary debate as a key driver of military reform. By drawing on analysis of Hansard from past decades, this article argues that the Canadian Parliament has historically pushed for radical reform to the military justice system. This reformist consensus continues to shape Parliamentary discussions on military justice in the twenty-first century.

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Che Abdul Rahman, Anis Nadiah, Imran Ho Abdullah, Intan Safinaz Zainuddin, and Azhar Jaludin. "THE COMPARISONS OF OCR TOOLS: A CONVERSION CASE IN THE MALAYSIAN HANSARD CORPUS DEVELOPMENT." MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING 4, no. 2 (December 20, 2019): 335. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/mjoc.v4i2.5626.

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a tool in computational technology that allows a recognition of printed characters by manipulating photoelectric devices and computer software. It runs by converting images or texts that are scanned beforehand into machine-readable and editable texts. There are a various numbers of OCR tools in the market for commercial and research use, which are obtainable for free or restrained with purchases. An OCR tool is able to enhance the accuracy of the results which as well relies on pre-processing and subdivision of algorithms. This study intends to investigate the performances of OCR tools in converting the Parliamentary Reports of Hansard Malaysia for developing the Malaysian Hansard Corpus (MHC). By comparing four OCR tools, the study has converted ten reports of Parliamentary Reports which contains a number of 62 pages to see the conversion accuracy and error rate of each conversion tool. In this study, all of the tools are manipulated to convert Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into Plain Text File (txt). The objective of this study is to give an overview based on accuracy and error rate of how each OCR tools essentially works and how it can be utilized to provide assistance towards corpus building. The study indicates that each tool possesses a variety of accuracy and error rates to convert the whole documents from PDF into txt or plain text files. The study proposes that a step of corpus building can be made easier and manageable when a researcher understands the way an OCR tool works in order to choose the best OCR tool prior to the outset of the corpus development.

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Tarish, Abbas Hussein. "A Corpus Analysis of Changes in the Use of British and American English Modals and Semi-Modals." International Journal of English and Cultural Studies 1, no. 1 (February 23, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijecs.v1i1.3049.

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This research has two main purposes. The first one is to test the modal replacement hypothesis proposed by Smith (2003) and discussed by Leech (2003), on the basis of data from the Hansard Corpus (THC- 1.6 billion words, 1800-2000) and the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA - 400 million words, 1810-2000). The second purpose of the study was to draw upon time series models to generate insights about how modal and semi-modal frequencies have changed over time. Cumulatively, these two forms of analysis addressed an acknowledged gap in the current literature on modal and semi-modal frequency change, namely the question of whether modals are being replaced by semi-modals.

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Clarke, Patricia. "The Queensland Shearers' Strikes in Rosa Praed's Fiction." Queensland Review 9, no. 1 (May 2002): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600002750.

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Novelist Rosa Praed's portrayal of colonial Queensland in her fiction was influenced by her social position as the daughter of a squatter and conservative Cabinet Minister, Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, and limited by the fact that she lived in Australia for much less than one-third of her life. After she left Australia in 1876, she recharged her imagination, during her long novel-writing career in England, by seeking specific information through family letters and reminiscences, copies of Hansard and newspapers. As the decades went by and she remained in England, the social and political dynamics of colonial society changed. Remarkably, she remained able to tum sparse sources into in-depth portrayals of aspects of colonial life.

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Hindle, Don. "Taking health seriously:the Senate inquiry into public hospitals." Australian Health Review 23, no. 2 (2000): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah000003a.

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In July last year, the State and Territory leaders expressed concern over a health system under "unsustainable stress" and suggested that the Federal Government should sponsor a prolongedand detailed inquiry by the Productivity Commission. The Prime Minister rejected thesuggestion, and the Australian Senate therefore decided to conduct its own shorter inquiry.Submissions were invited late last year, and the Senate Community Affairs References Committeeis conducting hearings at the time of writing. The focus here is on my idiosyncratic impressionsof what has happened during the hearings on 11 November 1999 (Canberra), 23 February(Adelaide), 24 February (Darwin), 25 February (Perth), 21 March (Sydney), and 22 March(Brisbane). Transcripts of the hearings are available in Hansard (1999, 2000).

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Kaine, Sarah, and Martijn Boersma. "Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2017." Journal of Industrial Relations 60, no. 3 (April 20, 2018): 317–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185618764204.

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Throughout 2017, public interest, parliamentary debate and academic research about women, work and industrial relations centred around a few key themes: pay and income inequality, health and well-being at work and the intersection of paid and unpaid work. These themes were identified in three related yet distinct mediums: the media, parliamentary debate and academic literature. Automated content analysis software was used to assist in the thematic analysis of media articles and the House of Representatives Hansard, supplemented by a manual analysis of relevant academic publications. A thematic overlap was evident across the three datasets, despite the time lag associated with academic research and publication. This is a significant finding, emphasising that the inequalities experienced by women in the labour market are long term and entrenched.

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Monroe, Burt L., and Philip A. Schrodt. "Introduction to the Special Issue: The Statistical Analysis of Political Text." Political Analysis 16, no. 4 (2008): 351–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpn017.

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Text is arguably the most pervasive—and certainly the most persistent—artifact of political behavior. Extensive collections of texts with clearly recognizable political—as distinct from religious—content go back as far as 2500 BCE in the case of Mesopotamia and 1300 BCE for China, and 2400-year-old political discussions dating back to the likes of Plato, Aristotle, and Thucydides are common fare even in the introductory study of political thought. Political tracts were among the earliest productions following the introduction of low-cost printing in Europe—fueling more than a few revolutions and social upheavals—and continuous printed records of legislative debates, such as the British parliament's Hansard and precursors tracing to 1802, cover centuries of political discussion.

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Manthorpe, Jill, Stephen Martineau, Caroline Norrie, and Martin Stevens. "Parliamentary arguments on powers of access – the Care Bill debates." Journal of Adult Protection 18, no. 6 (December 12, 2016): 318–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jap-04-2016-0008.

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Purpose Opinion is divided on whether a new power of entry should be introduced for social workers in cases where individuals seem to be hindering safeguarding enquiries for community-dwelling adults at risk in England who have decision-making capacity. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the prevalence and circumstances of situations where access to an adult at risk is denied or difficult and what helps those in practice. The study consists of a literature review, a survey of adult safeguarding managers and interviews with social care staff in three case studies of local authorities. As part of the contextual literature review, during 2014 the authors located parliamentary debates on the subject and this paper reports on their analysis. Design/methodology/approach Following approaches were used in historical research, documentary analysis was carried out on transcripts of parliamentary debates available online from Hansard, supplemented by other materials that were referenced in speeches and set in the theoretical context of the representations of social problems. Findings The authors describe the content of debates on the risks and benefits of a new right to access for social workers and the role of parliamentary champions who determinedly pursued this policy, putting forward three unsuccessful amendments in efforts to insert such a new power into the Care Act 2014. Research limitations/implications There are limits to a focus on parliamentary reports and the limits of Hansard reporting are small but need to be acknowledged. However, adult safeguarding research has surprisingly not undertaken substantial analyses of political rhetoric despite the public theatre of the debate and the importance of legislative initiatives and monitoring. Originality/value This paper adds to the history of adult safeguarding in England. It also offers insight into politicians’ views on what is known/unknown about the prevalence and circumstances of the problems with gaining access to adults with capacity where there are safeguarding concerns and politicians’ views on the merits or hazards of a power of access.

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Mohd Nor, Nor Fariza, Anis Nadiah Che Abdul Rahman, Azhar Jaluddin, Imran Ho Abdullah, and Sabrina Tiun. "A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word ‘ekonomi’ in Malaysian Hansard Corpus." GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies 19, no. 4 (November 27, 2019): 66–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/gema-2019-1904-04.

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Kotze, Haidee, and Bertus van Rooy. "Democratisation in the South African parliamentary Hansard? A study of change in modal auxiliaries." Language Sciences 79 (May 2020): 101264. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2019.101264.

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RUSH, MICHAEL. "Making Better Law: A Review of the Hansard Society Commission on the Legislative Process." Statute Law Review 14, no. 2 (1993): 75–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/slr/14.2.75.

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Mujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira. "Invoking Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) to Interpret Legislation in Mauritius: The Prevention of Corruption Act." Statute Law Review 37, no. 1 (September 10, 2015): 77–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/slr/hmv025.

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Akuka, Benedict S., Christiana Hammond, and Albert A. Wornyo. "Politeness in Parliamentary Discourse: An Analysis of the Hansard of the Parliament of Ghana." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 5, no. 4 (September 26, 2021): p1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v5n4p1.

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This study investigates politeness in parliamentary discourse in Ghana. Using politeness theory as framework and the parliamentary Hansard as source of data, the study examines the politeness strategies employed by parliamentary actors, the implications of the frequency of the usage of the politeness strategies, and how the Standing Orders of Parliament determine the choice of a politeness strategy. Findings of the study show that political actors in the Parliament of Ghana use the bald on-record, the positive, the negative and the off-record politeness strategies in varied proportions. The study further reveals that the negative politeness strategy is the most frequently used politeness strategy with the Speaker being the highest user of the negative and the bald on-record politeness strategies. Again, the study found out that the off-record politeness strategy is the least used strategy. The Majority Members in Parliament use the highest frequency of the positive politeness strategies while the Minority Members of Parliament employ more negative politeness strategies. The study concludes that parliamentary discourse in Ghana employs more of the direct explicit polite expressions than the indirect implicit expressions of politeness. The study recommends that researchers should pay critical attention to the politeness phenomenon in parliamentary discourse.

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Spencer, Amanda, John Sheridan, David Thomas, and David Pullinger. "UK Government Web Continuity: Persisting Access through Aligning Infrastructures." International Journal of Digital Curation 4, no. 1 (June 29, 2009): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v4i1.82.

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Government's use of the Web in the UK is prolific and a wide range of services are now available though this channel. The government set out to address the problem that links from Hansard (the transcripts of Parliamentary debates) were not maintained over time and that therefore there was need for some long-term storage and stewardship of information, including maintaining access. Further investigation revealed that linking was key, not only in maintaining access to information, but also to the discovery of information. This resulted in a project that affects the entire government Web estate, with a solution leveraging the basic building blocks of the Internet (DNS) and the Web (HTTP and URIs) in a pragmatic way, to ensure that an infrastructure is in place to provide access to important information both now and in the future.

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Pearson, Mark, and Camille Galvin. "The Australian Parliament and press freedom in an international context." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 13, no. 2 (November 1, 2019): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v13i2.910.

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The article reports on a study using grounded theory methodology to track the contexts in which Australian parliamentarians used the expressions 'press freedom' and 'freedom of press' over the ten years from 1994 to 2004. It uses Parliamentry Hansard records to identify the speeches in which discussions of press freedom arose. Interestingly, the terms were used by members of the House of Representativies or Senate in just 78 speeches out of more than 180,000 over that decade. Those usages have been coded to develop a theory about the interface between press freedom and the parliament. This article reports just one aspect of the findings from the larger study—the way parliamentarians have contrasted the value of press freedom in Australia with press freedom in other countries. It is one step towards building a broader theory of press freedom in the Australian parliamentary context.

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Lee, Rona. "Truthing gap: imagining a relational geography of the uninhabitable." Architectural Research Quarterly 15, no. 3 (September 2011): 216–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135511000765.

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During 2008–10, I was the Artist in Residence of the Leverhulme Trust, at the National Oceanography Centre, (NOCS), Southampton, working with sonar geophysicist Dr Tim Le Bas, exploring methods of seabed mapping and undersea survey. During this period I documented aspects of oceanographic study, learnt processes used by my scientific colleagues, conducted performative interventions and made works in direct response to the context of NOCS. The work produced was shown at an exhibition at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff in 2009 and will be developed into a larger exhibition at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton in 2012. This article constitutes both a re-presentation of my primary research and a reflection on the methods I adopted to address the issues raised by my inquiries. Works produced are both referred to directly and represented via supplementary documentation.

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Huang, Leslie, Patrick O. Perry, and Arthur Spirling. "A General Model of Author “Style” with Application to the UK House of Commons, 1935–2018." Political Analysis 28, no. 3 (January 24, 2020): 412–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pan.2019.49.

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We consider evidence for the assertion that backbench members of parliament (MPs) in the UK have become less distinctive from one another in terms of their speech. Noting that this claim has considerable normative and substantive implications, we review theory and findings in the area, which are ultimately ambiguous on this question. We then provide a new statistical model of distinctiveness that extends traditional efforts to statistically characterize the “style” of authors and apply it to a corpus of Hansard speeches from 1935 to 2018. In the aggregate, we find no evidence for the claim of more homogeneity. But this hides intriguing covariate effects: at the MP-level, panel regression results demonstrate that on average, more senior backbenchers tend to be less “different” in speech terms. We also show, however, that this pattern is changing: in recent times, it is more experienced MPs who speak most distinctively.

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Mulvihill, Natasha. "The criminalisation of paying for sex in England and Wales: how gender and power are implicated in the making of policy." Journal of Public Policy 38, no. 2 (February 6, 2017): 165–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x16000295.

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AbstractThis article considers how gender and power are implicated in how prostitution policy is translated from initial proposal to enactment in law. The analysis brings together Freeman’s proposal for “policy translation” (2009) and Connell’s work on “hegemonic masculinity” (1987 with Messerschmidt 2005) to examine Hansard and other United Kingdom Parliament documents relating to Clause 13/14 of the Policing and Crime Bill 2008–2009, a proposal to criminalise the purchase of sex in England and Wales. It is argued here that hegemonic masculinity is implicated in how “responsibility” and “exploitation” in relation to sex purchase are disputed and defined within the Parliamentary debates on Clause 13/14, and this in turn informed the version of criminalisation that emerged as authoritative. This article reflects finally on how far mapping the translation of policy can elucidate the operation of gender and power within the policy process.

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Archer, Dawn, and Bethan Malory. "Tracing facework over time using semi-automated methods." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22, no. 1 (July 21, 2017): 27–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.22.1.02arc.

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Abstract Impolite behaviour tends to attract more evaluative comment than other facework, making it easier to investigate synchronically and diachronically. A reliance on metapragmatic commentary is not optimum for UK parliamentary studies, however, as MPs cannot use “insulting or rude language” that breaks the chamber’s “rules of politeness” (www.parliament.uk). The work reported here thus offers three innovative methods of tracing MPs’ facework as they negotiated the “unparliamentary language” prohibition, and the results gleaned when the methods were applied to Hansard records (1812–2004). Method 1 prioritises portmanteau tags made up of USAS semtags. Method 2 prioritises themes derived from the HTOED. Method 3 draws on ‘meaning constellations’ (i.e. simultaneous searches of multiple tags). The UK parliamentary website highlights the “considerable ingenuity” displayed by MPs in order to circumvent their unparliamentary language prohibition. All methods have found examples of such ingenuity, many of which are characterized by multiple facework intentions (Archer 2015).

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Alasuutari, Pertti, Marjaana Rautalin, and Jukka Tyrkkö. "The Rise of the Idea of Model in Policymaking." European Journal of Sociology 59, no. 3 (December 2018): 341–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003975618000164.

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AbstractThe paper addresses the question whether national decision-making has become increasingly interdependent in recent decades, and what role “world models” play in any such trend. These questions are scrutinised by utilising the “Historic Hansard” corpus, which contains all records of the UK Parliament from 1803 to 2005, complemented by other corpora. The results show that references to other countries were most frequent in parliamentary debates very early in the 19th century. However, allusions to other countries have evolved from referencing case examples to referencing policies that are constructed and branded as models. The idea of transferable models caught on particularly strongly from the 1950s onward. The other corpora used for the study confirmed that these changes reflect a global trend. Hence, the post-war era has witnessed a worldwide spread of the idea of model as a precondition for a global proliferation of named models.

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Bainbridge, Alan, Joanne Bartley, and Tom Troppe. "The impact of research evidence on education policy: How Members of Parliament respond to evidence in relation to secondary selective education." FORUM 63, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 161–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3898/forum.2021.63.2.14.

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A detailed analysis of Hansard transcripts was undertaken to explore the dialogue used in parliamentary debates and committee meetings where reference was made to grammar schools between October 2015 to March 2019. During this period, the first new grammar school for fifty years had been approved, along with the establishment of the £50 million selective school expansion fund. Detailed qualitative analysis highlighted the widely disproportionate use of the term 'good' in relation to grammar schools. It is argued that 'good' instead of 'outstanding' or 'excellent' is chosen in relation to grammar schools as 'good' has moral overtones that go beyond reported educational standards. Proportionately, the number of comprehensive schools rated good or outstanding would need to be referred to in conjunction with 'good' 6698 times, not the forty-nine times this actually happened. Campaigners for comprehensive education need to reclaim the discourse of 'goodness' for all schools.

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Mensah, Eric Opoku, and Sandra Freda Wood. "Articulations of feminine voices in Ghana’s parliament: a study of the Hansard from 2010-2011." AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies 7, no. 2 (November 20, 2018): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/laligens.v7i2.6.

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Power, Greg. "GUEST ARTICLE: Making Government Accountable - The Report of the Hansard Society Commission on Parliamentary Scrutiny." Journal of Legislative Studies 7, no. 2 (June 2001): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/714003874.

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MACLEOD, MORGAN. "Postverbal negation and the lexical split of not." English Language and Linguistics 24, no. 4 (July 16, 2019): 667–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674319000170.

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In Early Modern English, verbal negation was commonly expressed by the addition of not directly after a lexical verb, a construction which subsequently underwent a pronounced decline in frequency as part of broader changes in verbal syntax. Even after the rise of the auxiliary do, however, constructions with the same surface form as the earlier pattern have continued to be used as a stylistically marked alternative. Data from the Hansard Corpus are presented here to show an increase in the frequency of these constructions since the mid twentieth century. The syntactic environments in which contemporary postverbal negation occurs are compared to the patterns existing in Early Modern English, and evaluated in the light of trends within constituent negation. The interpretation proposed is that a lexical split has occurred to produce two separate lexemes of the form not, with different syntactic properties. Postverbal negation would thus occur in Present-day English when speakers choose to make use of the new lexeme.

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De Smet, Hendrik. "Unwitting Inventors: Speakers Use -ly-Adverbs More Creatively when Primed." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66, no. 3 (September 25, 2018): 329–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0028.

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Abstract Speakers may use language creatively because they want to be extravagant, or because they need to communicate content for which no conventional coding solution exists. In addition, however, there is a third motivation for creativity that is both more fundamental and less conspicuous. Speakers are creative because their mental access to linguistic resources is limited and variable – a factor referred to here as ‘availability.’ In this paper, corpus data from the spoken British National Corpus and from the Hansard Corpus are used to show that speakers of English use the morphological pattern of -ly-adverb formation (as in correctly, locally, poorly etc.) more creatively when they have recently heard or used another -ly-adverb. This manifests itself in higher type frequencies – hence, more varied forms – for -ly-adverbs. The effect can be ascribed to priming, and indicates that the creative use of a linguistic resource depends on factors that facilitate mental access to it.

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Bull, Peter, Ralph Negrine, and Katie Hawn. "Telling it like it is or just telling a good story?" Language and Dialogue 4, no. 2 (September 15, 2014): 213–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.4.2.03bul.

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According to recent research, there has been a marked shift in television new journalism from a fact-based to a more interpretive style, through editing techniques such as de-contextualization and re-contextualization. The aim of this study was to investigate whether such techniques might be identified in British news bulletins, broadcast during the parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009. Audio-visual clips utilized by more than one television channel were identified, in order to analyze the interpretation of identical audio-visual content across different news bulletins. In addition, clips taken from House of Commons debates were checked against Hansard (the written record of all parliamentary proceedings). Specific editing techniques identified were: contextualization before and after an utterance; interpolation; and the creation of imaginary dialogues. News bulletins were conceptualized as a form of narrative, with politicians as actors, political journalists as narrators, and clips from different political events edited into the overall framework of an interpretive storyline.

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Kruger, Haidee, and Adam Smith. "Colloquialization versus Densification in Australian English: A Multidimensional Analysis of the Australian Diachronic Hansard Corpus (ADHC)." Australian Journal of Linguistics 38, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 293–328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2018.1470452.

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Bell, John. "What is the Function of the Conseil D'etat in the Preparation of Legislation?" International and Comparative Law Quarterly 49, no. 3 (July 2000): 661–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020589300064423.

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Consideration of the Conseil d'Etat and its role in the preparation of legislation helps us in Britain to appreciate how our own legislative process might be improved. The Hansard Society Report1 suggested in 1992 that Britain needed to look beyond just improving the drafting of legislation and needed to reform the legislative process, both before a bill is presented to Parliament and in its passage through Parliament. My reflection on the French process is to suggest that this offers us a further focus of attention—the questions which should be asked during the scrutiny process. There are two areas where we need to ask questions—on fundamental rights and practical effectiveness. I think that the British trust too much to the political process to ensure that questions concerning respect for fundamental values and also administrative workability are addressed before a bill is passed by Parliament. This paper is influenced by observations made in 1986 of the Interior Section of the Conseil d'Etat in its scrutiny of a number of government bills at the beginning of the Chirac premiership.

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Magyar, J. J. "The Evolution of Hansard Use at the Supreme Court of Canada: A Comparative Study in Statutory Interpretation." Statute Law Review 33, no. 3 (September 5, 2012): 363–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/slr/hms030.

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Game, Chantal S., Lisa M. Cullen, and Alistair M. Brown. "The rise of financial accountability in British joint stock banks: 1825 to 1845." Financial History Review 27, no. 2 (August 2020): 234–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0968565020000086.

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This study explores parliamentary reforms related to the financial accountability of banks following the 1825–6 and 1836–7 financial crises in England. An appraisal of nineteenth-century parliamentary Hansard transcripts reveals early banking legislative pursuits. The study observes the laissez-faire and interventionist approaches towards the banking enactments of 1826, 1833 and 1844 that underpin the transformation of financial accountability during this era. The Bank Notes Act 1826 imposed financial accountability on the Bank of England by requiring the mandatory disclosure of notes issued. The Bank Notes Act 1833 extended this requirement to all other banks. The Bank Charter Act 1833 increased the financial accountability of the Bank of England by requiring it to provide an account of bullion and securities belonging to the governor and company, as well as deposits held by the bank. Thereafter, the Joint Stock Banks Act 1844 pioneered the regular publication of assets and liabilities and communication of the balance sheet and profit and loss account to shareholders. State intervention in the financial accountability of banks during the period from 1825 to 1845 appears to have been cumulative.

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De Smet, Hendrik. "What predicts productivity? Theory meets individuals." Cognitive Linguistics 31, no. 2 (June 25, 2020): 251–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0026.

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AbstractBecause they involve individual-level cognitive processes, psychological explanations of linguistic phenomena are in principle testable against individual behaviour. The present study draws on patterns of individual variation in corpus data to test explanations of productivity. Linguistic patterns are predicted to become more productive with higher type frequencies and lower token frequencies. This is because the formation of abstract mental representations is encouraged by varied types but counteracted by automation of high-frequency types. The predictions are tested for English -ly and -ness-derivation, as used by 698 individual journalists in the New York Times Annotated Corpus and 171 members of Parliament in the Hansard Corpus. Linear regression is used to model individual variation in productivity, in relation to type and token frequency, as well as several other predictor variables. While the expected effects are observed, there is also robust evidence of an interaction effect between type and token frequency, indicating that productivity is highest for patterns with many types and not-too-infrequent tokens. This fits best with a view of entrenchment as both a conservative and creative force in language. Further, some variation remains irreducibly individual and is not explained by currently known predictors of productivity.

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Mat Awal, Norsimah, Azhar Jaludin, Anis Nadiah Che Abdul Rahman, and Imran Ho-Abdullah. "“Is Selangor in Deep Water?”: A Corpus-driven Account of Air/water in the Malaysian Hansard Corpus (MHC)." GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies 19, no. 2 (May 30, 2019): 99–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/gema-2019-1902-07.

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Clayton, Amanda, Cecilia Josefsson, and Vibeke Wang. "Quotas and Women's Substantive Representation: Evidence from a Content Analysis of Ugandan Plenary Debates." Politics & Gender 13, no. 02 (July 13, 2016): 276–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x16000453.

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Despite the popularity of electoral gender quotas, the substantive impact of quotas on the plenary behavior of members of parliament (MPs) has yet to be thoroughly empirically explored, and in particular, there is a dearth of evidence from non-Western cases. Here we create a unique content analysis dataset from 14 years (1998–2011) of plenary debates, including the contents of more than 150,000 unique MP speeches recorded in some 40,000 pages of the Ugandan parliamentary Hansard to test how MP characteristics affect patterns of gender-related legislative speech. We find that female MPs speak about issues related to women's interests significantly more than male MPs. Further, we find no evidence of significant differencesbetweenfemale MPs elected with and without quotas, suggesting that, in the Ugandan case, gender is a more salient predictor of the tendency to “speak for women” than electoral pathway. To our knowledge, this is the first study that examines the effectiveness of quotas in promoting women's substantive representation in parliamentary debates across all policy domains over a significant time period. We discuss the implications of these findings in the Ugandan context, as well as how our evidence speaks to substantive representation through reserved seat quotas in semi-authoritarian regimes more broadly.

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DE SMET, HENDRIK, and FREEK VAN DE VELDE. "Experimenting on the past: a case study on changing analysability in English ly-adverbs." English Language and Linguistics 21, no. 2 (July 2017): 317–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674317000168.

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While it is undoubtedly true that historical data do not lend themselves well to the reproduction of experimental findings, the availability of increasingly extensive data sets has brought some experimenting within practical reach. This means that certain predictions based on a combination of synchronic observations and uniformitarian thinking are now testable. Synchronic evidence shows a negative correlation between analysability in morphologically complex words and various measures of frequency. It is therefore expected that when the frequency of morphologically complex items changes, their analysability will change along with this. If analysability decreases, this should in turn be reflected in decreasing sensitivity to priming by items with analogous composition. The latter prediction is in principle testable on diachronic data, offering a way of verifying the diachronic effect of frequency change on analysability. In this spirit, the present article examines the relation between changing frequency and priming sensitivity, as a proxy to analysability. This is done for a sample of 250 English ly-adverbs, such as roughly, blindly, publicly, etc. over the period 1950–2005, using data from the Hansard Corpus. Some of the expected relations between frequency and analysability can be shown to hold, albeit with great variation across lexical items. At the same time, much of the variation in our measure of analysability cannot be accounted for by frequency or frequency change alone.

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Purvis, M. "Yesterday in Parliament: British Politicians and Debate over Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, 1970–92." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 12, no. 3 (September 1994): 361–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c120361.

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In this paper British politicians' understanding of, and attitudes towards, an important element of global environmental change are analysed through study of the parliamentary record Hansard, especially questions to ministers. In particular, attention is given to the evolution of debates concerning stratospheric ozone depletion during the period 1970–92, This focus reflects the importance of ozone depiction as an issue per se, but is also consistent with the wider argument that we need to study the development of specific environmental issues if we are to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the greening of politics; a process hitherto frequently considered as a somewhat incoherent whole, The aim is to trace the chronology of concern about stratospheric ozone, to identify the stimuli to interest in the issue, and to analyse the content and limitations of discussion. This last involves examination of interaction between a global environmental issue and the ideologies of the British national party-political system. The value of consideration of national debate about global issues is thus asserted, National and international debate and diplomacy form interacting elements of a ‘two-level game’ through which politics and environmental concerns become engaged. Previous studies which were focused chiefly on the evolution of a new environmental diplomacy at the international level thus tell only part of the story.

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