ABSTRACT

Parliamentary debates are an important instrument for setting the political agenda. We hypothesize that parliamentarians belonging to a Green party deliver more speeches on issues related not only to the environment, but also to agriculture, energy and transport as well as to citizen and minority rights. We conceptualize this mix of policy issues as the green agenda. Research on the programmatic-ideological position of political parties has shown that such a broader green agenda exists. Can we also observe this green agenda in parliamentary debates? Does the manifestation of the green agenda depend on the representation of political groups in parliament? By drawing on original data for parliamentary debates in the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and Sweden, we show that Green parties in parliament push forward issues related to the broader green agenda, though it is also affected by the representation of Agrarian parties.

摘要

议会辩论是制定政治议程的重要工具。我们假设属于绿党的议员就环境、农业、能源和运输以及公民和少数族裔权利等相关问题发表更多演讲。我们将这种政策问题的组合概念化为绿色议程。对政党的纲领性意识形态立场的研究表明，存在这样一个更广泛的绿色议程。我们能否在议会辩论中也遵守这一绿色议程？绿色议程的体现是否取决于政治团体在议会中的代表性？通过利用捷克共和国、芬兰、德国、爱尔兰和瑞典议会辩论的原始数据，