Over PSA Conference 2015, we have a number of events schedules, including three panels, our specialist group meeting, and a reception. Details are below. Please note that for each panel, papers are attached as hyperlinks (where available):
Monday 30th March
PANEL: Political Behaviour in Parliaments, 11.30am-1.00pm (City Hall – John Barbirolli Room)
- ‘Playing roulette with the human life’: Religion and parliamentary voting on abortion and euthanasia, 1997-2012 – Ekaterina Kolpinskaya (University of Exeter)
- Reaching across the aisle – explaining the rise of All-Party Parliamentary Groups in the United Kingdom – Paul Thomas (University of Toronto)
- MEPs, national party leaders, and discipline: Investigating the claim of partisan control in the European Parliament – Einion Dafydd (Cardiff University)
- Getting Intimate with Voters: Do Finnish Candidates Do ‘It’ More Than, or Simply Differently to Swedes? – David Arter and Linda Mellner (University of Tampere)
Tuesday 31st March
PANEL: Committees in the Westminster Context, 9.00am-10.30am (John Barbirolli Room, City Hall)
- Opposition Members and the Education Select Committee – J David Morgan (Open University)
- Initial Findings of the Select Committees Data Archive Project – Mark Goodwin (University of Cambridge) and Stephen Bates (University of Birmingham)
- Hidden Servants: Parliamentary staff in select committees of the UK House of Commons – Marc Geddes (The University of Sheffield)
Parliaments and Legislatures Specialist Group Business Meeting/AGM, 12.30pm-1.30pm (Committee Room 1 – Sheffield Town Hall)
Sponsored Reception with Taylor and Francis/Journal of Legislative Studies, 6.30pm-7.30pm (Cutlers’ Hall)
Wednesday 1st April
PANEL: Accountability Between Parliament and Public, 9.00am-10.30am (Mandela Room – Reception Suite, Town Hall)
- Towards a deeper appreciation of citizens’ understanding of politics – Margit van Wessel (Wageningen University)
- The Decline of Trust in Parliament in Europe – David Bender (Hull)
- Evidence-informed or value based? Exploring the scrutiny of legislation in the UK Parliament: two case studies – Catherine Bochel (University of Lincoln) and Philip Begley
- Balancing Westminster-style democratic accountability with institutional and service-led accountability: the case of prevention policy in Scotland – Paul Cairney (University of Stirling) Emily St Denny (Nottingham Trent University/University of Stirling)