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Palonen

The Politics of Limited Times

The Rhetoric of Temporal Judgment in Parliamentary Democracies
Nomos,  2008, 264 Pages

ISBN 978-3-8329-3804-8


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The work is part of the series Studies in Political Theory (Volume 3)
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englischPolitics is inherently a play with time. “The Politics of Limited Times” offers a temporal reading of politics, combining ideal typical, rhetorical and historical approaches. The study continues the author"s work on the history of concept of politics with a rhetorical analysis of the institutions and practices of playing with time.

The parliamentarization and democratization of politics render the temporal horizons of politics shorter than in monarchic and bureaucratic regimes. The temporal layers of regular and recurrent occasions for change can be divided into individual lifetime, momentum, time-span and calendar. Chapters dealing with the democratization of suffrage, the alternation in government, parliamentary procedures and rhetorical practices and times of politicians illustrate the interplay and opposition these layers with each other. The concluding chapters connect the temporal layers to the play with the scarce time and to a defense of the short temporal horizons as the main advantage of parliamentary democracies. If a proverb says: “statesmen think about next generations, politicians about next elections”, this book encourages its readers to think like politicians.