Debating Laws : Studies on Parliamentary Justification of Legislation

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910799241303321
• Autore: Oliver-Lalana A. Daniel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• ISBN: 3-031-46727-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 pages)
• Collana: Legisprudence Library ; ; v.10
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Legislative Debates in Parliament as a Source of Statutory Justification: A Framework for Analysis and Evaluation -- 1 Legislative Reasons and Parliamentary Deliberation: The `Concentrate´ Hypothesis -- 2 Legisprudential Reconstruction and Analysis of Legislative Debates in Parliament -- 2.1 Legislative Arguments -- 2.2 Levels of Legislative Justification -- 2.3 Spectrum of Legislative Reasons -- 2.4 Teleological Structure of Legislative Justification -- 3 Evaluation of Legislative Debates -- 3.1 Politological Evaluations: Discourse Quality and Deliberative Intelligence -- 3.2 Argumentativist Evaluation: Argument Schemes and Critical Questions -- 3.3 Legislative Semantics and Legisprudential Evaluation of Debates -- 4 A Legisprudential Approach to the Evaluation of Legislative Debates in Parliament -- 4.1 Debate Extent -- 4.2 Structural Correctness -- 4.2.1 An Argumentation Scheme for Legislative Justification -- 4.2.2 Critical Questions or Stock Issues in Legislative Deliberations -- 4.3 Dialectical (or Dialectical-Deliberative) Thoroughness -- 4.4 Plausibility -- 4.5 Limitations of the Evaluation Approach -- 5 Legislative Debates and Representative Democracy -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 2: Was It Really `To No Avail´? The Legislative Deliberations on Underage Girls´ Access to Abortion in Spain -- 1 A Legisprudential Approach to Legislative Debate Evaluation -- 2 The Legislative Scenario (Organic Law 11/2015) -- 3 Extent of the Legislative Deliberations -- 4 Structure and Stock Issues of Legislative Justification -- 5 Dialectical-; Deliberative Value of the Legislative Justification -- 6 Plausibility of the Justification Contained in the Debates -- 7 Was It Really `To No Avail´? -- References.; Chapter 3: Legislative Debates on Death with Dignity and Euthanasia. An Approach to the Spanish Situation -- 1 Approach -- 2 Context and Occasio Legis -- 3 Scope of the Legislative Debates -- 3.1 Linguistic Rationality -- 3.2 Communicative Rationality -- 3.3 Systematic Rationality -- 3.4 Pragmatic Rationality -- 3.5 Teleological Rationality -- 3.6 Axiological Rationality -- 4 The Economic Impact Argument, the Social Support Argument, and the Legislative Haste -- 4.1 The Economic Impact -- 4.2 The Social Support -- 4.3 The Legislative Haste -- 5 Legislative Dialogue -- 6 Taking Stock -- 6.1 A Final Assessment -- 6.2 A Proposal -- References -- Chapter 4: Debating on the Rights of Crime Victims: A Legisprudential Examination of the Parliamentary Deliberation on the Spa... -- 1 Introduction: Reasons and Arguments for the Return of Victims to Crime Policy -- 2 The Analysis of the Parliamentary Argumentation on the Victim Protection Act -- 2.1 Some Conceptual and Methodological Clarifications -- 2.2 Contextualisation of the Legislative Process -- 3 The Parliamentary Discussion of the LEVD: Agreements and Disagreements -- 4 De-politicisation, Consensus and the Role of Victims: The Basis for a Seemingly Peaceful Debate -- 5 Arguments Concerning the Intervention of the Victim at the Penalty Enforcement Stage (Art. 13 LEVD) -- 6 Conclusions: Agreements and Disagreements About Victims -- References -- Chapter 5: Expelling, Discussing, and Throwing Values Out -- 1 Regulating Expulsion (Introduction) -- 2 Six Years Later: Venice, Strasbourg, the Gap and the Knot -- 3 Six Years Before. On Legislative Liturgy: Expelling and Discussing -- 3.1 Commitment, Rigour, Respect and the `Parliamentary Roller´ -- 3.2 Securitarian Patriotism, Responsibility to Defend and a Virtuous Balance -- 3.3 In the Name of Rights. The Friendly Face of State Racism.; 4 The `Impossible´ Made Possible -- 5 Throwing Values Out (Conclusions) -- Annex: Parliamentary Debates -- References -- Chapter 6: Parliamentary Debate as a Source of Justification for the Combat Against Gender Violence Act -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background and occasio legis of the Combat against Gender Violence Act (LVG) -- 3 Parliamentary Justification, Processing and Deliberation -- 4 Arguments Within Parliament -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 7: Parliamentary Debates on Joint Custody Legislation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Joint Custody -- 3 Methodology -- 4 Discussion of Law 2/2010 -- 4.1 Context -- 4.2 Extent (Scope) -- 4.3 Structure -- 4.4 Dialectics -- 5 Discussion of Law 6/2019 -- 5.1 Context -- 5.2 Extent (Scope) -- 5.3 Structure -- 5.4 Dialectics -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Parliamentary Debates on Bullfighting in Spain: Animals Lost in Translation? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Animal Issue in the Parliamentary Processing of Law 18/2013 -- 3 Analysis of the Arguments in the Parliamentary Debate -- 3.1 Arguments in Favour of a Law Regulating Bullfighting as an Asset of Cultural Interest -- 3.1.1 Bullfighting Is Culture and Part of the National Identity -- 3.1.2 Against the Ban and in Favour of Citizens´ Freedom to Go to the Bullfights -- 3.1.3 Bullfighting Creates Wealth and Employment -- 3.1.4 Bullfighting Helps to Protect the ``Dehesa´´ and the Ecosystem -- 3.1.5 The Bull Does Not Suffer During the Bullfight -- 3.2 Arguments Against the Law Regulating Bullfighting as an Asset of Cultural Interest -- 3.2.1 Against Centralism: The Law Is an Encroachment of Competence by the State -- 3.2.2 Bulls Do Not Represent Everyone´s Identity -- 3.2.3 Culture and Identity Cannot Be Built on Cruelty to Animals -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusions -- Annex: ; Parliamentary Debates on Law 18/2013 -- References.; Chapter 9: Minimum Vital Income: A Legislative Debate from the `Participant-Observer´ Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Minimum Vital Income: Formation of an Idea -- 3 The Incorporation of the Rhetorics into the Parliamentary Debate: The Decree-Law 20/2020 -- 4 The Evolution of a Parliamentary Debate -- 4.1 Pre-legislative Debates -- 4.2 Legislative Debates -- 5 Discussion -- References -- Chapter 10: Interpreting Fundamental Rights from the (Parliamentary) Bench. Notes on Constitutional Argumentation in Legislati... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On the Functions of the Invocation of Constitutional Doctrine in Parliament -- 3 Elements of Constitutional Argumentation in Legislative Debates -- 3.1 Interpretative Standards -- 3.2 Argumentative Structures: Proportionality and Balancing -- 3.3 Fundamental Rights as Guide and Limit -- 4 On the Objection that It Is the Votes that Decide, Not the Arguments -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Glossary.

Geography in secondary schools : researching pupils' classroom experiences / / Nick Hopwood ; foreword by Graham Butt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810417203321
• Autore: Hopwood Nick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2012
• ISBN: 1-282-13386-1; 9786613806444; 1-4411-4808-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ButtGraham
• Disciplina: 910.71/2
• Soggetti: Geography - Study and teaching (Secondary)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Introduction; Beginnings; Why research pupils' conceptions and experiences of school geography?; The research project; Outline of remaining chapters; 2 School Geography in England; Recent developments in English school geography; The Geography National Curriculum; Key ; themes in school geography; Values and controversial issues in school geography; Viewpoints and ideologies and school geography; Concluding remarks; 3 Building on Prior Research; Terminology; The nature of pupils' subject conceptionsWhat do we know already about pupils' conceptions and experiences of school geography?; 4 Springfield School: Lisa and Bart; School context; Lisa's conceptions and experiences of school geography; Bart's conceptions and experiences of school geography; Comparative review of Lisa and Bart; 5 Belmont School: Sara and Matt; School context; Sara's conceptions and experiences of school geography; Matt's conceptions and experiences of school geography; Comparative review of Sara and Matt; 6 Cedar Grove School: Jenie and Ryan; School context; Interest in and enjoyment of school geographyThe relevance of school geography; The uses and importance of school geography; Concluding remarks; 9 Conclusions; What have we learnt about how pupils describe school geography?; What have we learnt about the judgements pupils make about school geography?; Summary of key findings; What does this all mean? Discussion and implications; Concluding thoughts; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Gaining a better sense of how pupils conceive school geography is crucial if we are to understand the ways in which their ideas and values mediate learning processes. Geography in Secondary Schools explores how pupils experience geography lessons, what they think geography as a school subject is about, and what it means to them. School geography aims to help young people think about the world and their place in it in a distinctive geographical way, however very little is known about the kinds of thinking and values they associate with the subject.Researchers are increasingly taking young peopl