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The politics of justification? Applying the ‘discourse quality index’ to the study of the European Parliament

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  • Christopher Lord
  • Dionysia Tamvaki

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In this paper, we apply a revised version of the discourse quality index (DQI) developed by Steenbergen et al. on European Parliament debates in an attempt to evaluate the democratic quality of representation at the EU level. This updated measurement instrument, after the inclusion of new indicators, helps us identify not just the principles of EU deliberation but most importantly the favourable contextual conditions of supranational deliberation. We illustrate the new DQI coding for selected debates over the last EU parliamentary term and across six debate topics following the former three pillar structure of the Union. We discuss how these data can be employed to assess the overall quality of deliberation in the European Parliament. At the same time we demonstrate that institutional issues matter for the quality of EP discourse much like MEPs personal characteristics. Issue attributes on the other hand, influence supranational deliberation but not in the expected direction.

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  • Christopher Lord & Dionysia Tamvaki, 2011. "The politics of justification? Applying the ‘discourse quality index’ to the study of the European Parliament," RECON Online Working Papers Series 3, RECON.
    • Handle: RePEc:erp:reconx:p0090
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    1. Léa Roger & Gary S. Schaal, 2013. "The Quality of Deliberation in Two Committees of the European Parliament: The Neglected Influence of the Situational Context and the Policymaking Stage," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 1(2), pages 151-169.

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    deliberative democracy; democracy; European Parliament; MEPs; political science;
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