The Institute for Democracy \u201cSocietas Civilis\u201d \u2013 Skopje (IDSCS) and the Institute for Central, Eastern Europe and Balkans (IECOB) starting from June 2014 are monitoring the quality of the debates in the Macedonian Parliament. The monitoring is part of the project \u201cParliament Watch! Strengthening the political debate and deliberative discourse\u201d financed by the European Union and co-financed by the Institute for Democracy. Trough applying the \u2018Discourse Quality Index\u2019 each speech act in the plenary and in the sessions of eight parliamentary committees, selected based on their importance for political debate and political culture in the country, is being assessed based on several parameters. The main goal of this monitoring is to reach to empirical conclusions about the level and quality of argumentation of the parliamentary debates and to measure to what extent different opinions and standpoints influence and contribute to law-making.<\/p>\n