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I already were at another conference

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and know you can listen to a moderation

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how it would be done professionally

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<i>laughter</i>

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You have to image myself in a suit or sth like that

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For sure, everyone knows,

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that it is the goal of "big politics"

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to create majorities.

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For creating majorities, it is important to

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stay so vague in saying stuff,

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such that as many as possible agree with the said.

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The "saying nothing professional" was

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brought to an artform by "big politics"

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during the centuries.

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So it is understandable, that the

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"nothing sayers" in the

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parliaments of the world have to get rid

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of the frustration about

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the meaninglessness of their own doing.

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There are multiple ways for doing this;

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today we want to look at the most spectacular way.

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And so I'm glad to present the talk from

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Joachim Schautenbach and Pia Fortunata

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"A small history of parliament fights"

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So many words, but it is so easy

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Everyone of us is annoyed

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for at least 3 years.

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We have to blow steam!

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Today we have a look at

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parlamentarians giving themselves a

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proper licking.

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<i>applause</i>

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Welcome to "a small history of parliament fights"

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You all know the problem

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parliaments are most of time

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quiet boring

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and action is not a regular thing

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in the Bundestag.

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Because of this we had a look at some

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other parliaments a few years ago

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and were surprised about the possible.

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Such a parliament fight is not

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extraordinary democratic, but

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can produce pictures of artistic value.

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Sometimes in golden ratio

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and sometimes not

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And from that interest, the worldwide only

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expert blog about parliament fights arose.

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Which we keep for six years now.

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This is our blog,

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the domain is written in the program

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we can repeat that at the end

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We collected about 90 parliament fights

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on that blog in the last six years

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The last one is a week ago

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in Kenia

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and we try on a short summary.

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First of all about the theory:

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The history of parliament fights.

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The encyclopedic collective term is

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Legislative violence

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What's funny about that

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You can read that on wikipedia

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The history of legislative violence

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dates back until the

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murder of Julius Ceasar

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44 BC in the senate of Rome

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The big question is

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why is there violence in parliaments

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one of the few scientists

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who got deeply engaged with the topic

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is Christopher Gandrud

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who wrote a PhD theory about the topic

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and a few other publications

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ho considers the following factors

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important for the rising

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of a parliament fight.

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If political parties are underrepresented

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happening e.g. through

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first-past-the-post systems

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or high percentage hurdles

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therefore the voting system does'nt

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map the real voting results well

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Another important factor is

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the democracy is quite young

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The younger the democracy

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the higher the propability

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of violence in the parliament

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Gandroud put the in a nice picture

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the contrast

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more contrast

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okay anyway

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much depends on how old is a democracy

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Another factor is the

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ethnical, political and religious

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division of the society

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The more division the more fights

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and furthermore he fund out

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the parliament fights happen more often

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in the forefront of actual wars

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and civil wars

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One phase of great legislative violence

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was the prewar time of the

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american civil war

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where parliamentists were stabbed

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and challenged each other to duel

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or one beat another to near death

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with a stick

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happened 1864 in the eve of civil war

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in the US congress

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as the democrat brucks

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bate the repuclian sander to near death

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after the...

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bullshit

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after Sander hold a speech against slavery

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in the congress, after that he got a

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decent beating.

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from germany we found

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just a single example

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1950 the formerly NSDAP member

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Wolfgang Regler which also was

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a representative in post war germany

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was noticed for being a antisemite

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and right wing extremist

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was suspended from the Bundestag for a

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short time

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got back despite his suspension

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and then got thrown out

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of the building

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by social democrats

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<i>applause</i>

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during his forced exit, he fell through

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a glass door and down the stairs

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<i>laughter</i>

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After the second world war

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itlay was leading for a while

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There are even books about the conflicts

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in italian parlaments. One is called

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"tumulti in aula"

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Until today, there occasionally happen

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parliament fights in italy.

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Let's got to the episode

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"Where do the fights happen?"

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This is our tag cloud

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on our blog showing the countries

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where we found parliament fights

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Of course this is'nt representative

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like the PhD thesis of Gandrud

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He did a map showing all the fights from

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1981 to 2012

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This is still not enough contrast

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at least on the monitor

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In this period, there were 131 fights

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in parliaments

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Leading are the ucraine, turkey and cosovo

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which still might be on the opt

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Italy is still bit influenced by its past

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Since the fall of USSR

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russia got quieter

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The question

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Wo fights

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Parliamentary violence

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is done mostly by men

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<i>laughter</i>

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Women are more active

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than in playing football