I already were at another conference
and know you can listen to a moderation
how it would be done professionally
laughter
You have to image myself in a suit or sth like that
For sure, everyone knows,
that it is the goal of "big politics"
to create majorities.
For creating majorities, it is important to
stay so vague in saying stuff,
such that as many as possible agree with the said.
The "saying nothing professional" was
brought to an artform by "big politics"
during the centuries.
So it is understandable, that the
"nothing sayers" in the
parliaments of the world have to get rid
of the frustration about
the meaninglessness of their own doing.
There are multiple ways for doing this;
today we want to look at the most spectacular way.
And so I'm glad to present the talk from
Joachim Schautenbach and Pia Fortunata
"A small history of parliament fights"
So many words, but it is so easy
Everyone of us is annoyed
for at least 3 years.
We have to blow steam!
Today we have a look at
parlamentarians giving themselves a
proper licking.
applause
Welcome to "a small history of parliament fights"
You all know the problem
parliaments are most of time
quiet boring
and action is not a regular thing
in the Bundestag.
Because of this we had a look at some
other parliaments a few years ago
and were surprised about the possible.
Such a parliament fight is not
extraordinary democratic, but
can produce pictures of artistic value.
Sometimes in golden ratio
and sometimes not
And from that interest, the worldwide only
expert blog about parliament fights arose.
Which we keep for six years now.
This is our blog,
the domain is written in the program
we can repeat that at the end
We collected about 90 parliament fights
on that blog in the last six years
The last one is a week ago
in Kenia
and we try on a short summary.
First of all about the theory:
The history of parliament fights.
The encyclopedic collective term is
Legislative violence
What's funny about that
You can read that on wikipedia
The history of legislative violence
dates back until the
murder of Julius Ceasar
44 BC in the senate of Rome
The big question is
why is there violence in parliaments
one of the few scientists
who got deeply engaged with the topic
is Christopher Gandrud
who wrote a PhD theory about the topic
and a few other publications
ho considers the following factors
important for the rising
of a parliament fight.
If political parties are underrepresented
happening e.g. through
first-past-the-post systems
or high percentage hurdles
therefore the voting system does'nt
map the real voting results well
Another important factor is
the democracy is quite young
The younger the democracy
the higher the propability
of violence in the parliament
Gandroud put the in a nice picture
the contrast
more contrast
okay anyway
much depends on how old is a democracy
Another factor is the
ethnical, political and religious
division of the society
The more division the more fights
and furthermore he fund out
the parliament fights happen more often
in the forefront of actual wars
and civil wars
One phase of great legislative violence
was the prewar time of the
american civil war
where parliamentists were stabbed
and challenged each other to duel
or one beat another to near death
with a stick
happened 1864 in the eve of civil war
in the US congress
as the democrat brucks
bate the repuclian sander to near death
after the...
bullshit
after Sander hold a speech against slavery
in the congress, after that he got a
decent beating.
from germany we found
just a single example
1950 the formerly NSDAP member
Wolfgang Regler which also was
a representative in post war germany
was noticed for being a antisemite
and right wing extremist
was suspended from the Bundestag for a
short time
got back despite his suspension
and then got thrown out
of the building
by social democrats
applause
during his forced exit, he fell through
a glass door and down the stairs
laughter
After the second world war
itlay was leading for a while
There are even books about the conflicts
in italian parlaments. One is called
"tumulti in aula"
Until today, there occasionally happen
parliament fights in italy.
Let's got to the episode
"Where do the fights happen?"
This is our tag cloud
on our blog showing the countries
where we found parliament fights
Of course this is'nt representative
like the PhD thesis of Gandrud
He did a map showing all the fights from
1981 to 2012
This is still not enough contrast
at least on the monitor
In this period, there were 131 fights
in parliaments
Leading are the ucraine, turkey and cosovo
which still might be on the opt
Italy is still bit influenced by its past
Since the fall of USSR
russia got quieter
The question
Wo fights
Parliamentary violence
is done mostly by men
laughter
Women are more active
than in playing football