Senate debates revised energy bill

Eos ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 73 (7) ◽  
pp. 83-83
Author(s):  
S. Bush
Keyword(s):  
Senate Debates

Senate Debates Ethanol, MTBE Amendments

2003 ◽  
Vol 81 (19) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID HANSON
Keyword(s):  
Senate Debates

‘The legislature is the engine room of democracy’: Constructing ideological worldviews through proximisation strategies in Nigerian Senate debates

2020 ◽  
pp. 095792652097038
Author(s):  
Onwu Inya
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political System ◽  
Democratic Consolidation ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Ideological Discourse ◽  
Engine Room ◽  
Emerging Democracy ◽  
Senate Debates

This study investigates how legislators utilise proximisation strategies to construct ideological worldviews in Nigerian Senate debates about democratic consolidation and the legitimacy of the legislature. For data, samples were purposively drawn from a 1.9 million-word corpus of Nigerian Senate debates constructed for a broader research and subjected to qualitative discourse analysis. The analysis reveals that legislators’ discursive acts prompt the conceptual organisation of the discourse space such that the activities of the executive are construed to be inimical to democratic consolidation and the legitimacy of the legislature, whereas legislators construe themselves positively as resilient defenders of democracy and the legislative institution. Through proximisation strategies, legislators engage in the ideological discourse of positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation relative to the executive. This paper contributes to our understanding of the tenuous and polarised relationship amongst arms of government under a presidential political system in an emerging democracy.

Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, 4 March 1789-3 March 1791. Volume IX: The Diary of William Maclay and Other Notes on Senate Debates.

1996 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 836
Author(s):  
Rick K. Wilson ◽  
Kenneth R. Bowling ◽  
Helen E. Veit ◽  
Charlene Bangs Bickford ◽  
Kenneth R. Bowling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Documentary History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Senate Debates
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