Overview: Considers the role of debate in political action, including through consideration of parliamentary debates, documents, laws, and media articles.Focuses both on political action and its contexts, takin.This book explicates how debates and documents can be understood, interpreted and analysed as political action. It offers the reader both a theoretical introduction and practical guidance. The authors deploy the perspective that debates are to be understood as political activity, and documents can be regarded as frozen debates. The first chapter discusses what is to be understood as pol
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