In this paper we apply the information state update (ISU) machinery to tracking and understanding the argumentative behaviour of participants in a parliamentary debate in order to predict its outcome. We propose to use the ISU approach to model the arguments of the debaters and the support/attack links between them as part of the formal representations of a participant’s information state. We f...

This paper studies the channels through which agrarian crisis (1886-1890) arrived in Spanish Parliament and, once there, centered economic debate until an increase of protectionism was passed. The analysis roll-call votes on customs that took place those years allows to identify, narrative and quantitatively, line-up congressmen according partisan guides, but, also, interests, interests here, p...

The article analyses the duration of parliamentary debate in lawmaking process period when Poland was governed by populist groups (2015–2019). These (the United Right) are critical modern idea democracy, and parties treat a Parliament as political technique rather than an important ethical value. Formally, contemporary populism does not deny but lowers its rank clearly instrumentalises it, whic...

While there has been some research on the parliamentary enclosure of upland waste in England and Wales during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this topic still receives little attention in some recent accounts of parliamentary enclosure. Many aspects of the processes involved, and their impact on the landscape, are also poorly understood. Much research has proceeded either at a very gen...

Governmental systems are one of the significant topics of constitutional law literature and comprehensive studies have been carried out on this issue. The answer to the question whether a parliamentary system, a presidential system or a mixed system is the most suitable system of government can change according to the political preferences of the countries. Since countries search for the best s...