PSA Parliaments member Rainbow Murray looks ahead to the French legislative elections on 11 and 18 June and discusses an “unprecedented opportunity for renewal within the French Parliament”.
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Month: May 2017
Legislatures in Uncertain Times
Friday 17 November 2017, Edinburgh
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May 2017 newsletter
This month, we have lots of detailed information on the following for you:
- Our Annual Conference in November!
- Qualitative methods workshop
- Essay Competition 2017
- Writing workshop: consultation
- French legislative elections
- PSA branding changes
- Recently on the blog
Apologies that there is lots to read!! But we hope that some – if not – all of the below will be interesting.
If you have any notices / messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know (including events, new research projects, grants, publications, etc.). Or other ideas for the group and feedback for us, they’re welcome too!
Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Alex (@A_Meakin) and Leanne (@LeanneMarieC)
How does turnover of members affect the work of Committees in the European Parliament? David Alexander sets out the findings of his ESRC research.
Should the 2015-17 Parliament be remembered for anything more than Brexit? Alexandra Meakin looks at Select Committee work over the last two years.
The only two female members of the Intelligence and Security Committee are leaving the Commons at the general election, and the whole Committee will have to be re-formed after June. In a blog originally posted on the Democratic Audit blog, Andrew Defty says one of its reports has been rushed out before the election with the government’s redactions unchallenged, and a long-delayed inquiry into the UK intelligence services’ involvement in extraordinary rendition will now be pushed further back. Dominic Grieve is a promising chairman, but the ISC needs to get into shape quickly after the election.
Popular debates focus on the political class, usually its alleged careerism and self-interest. In a post originally posted on the LSE British Politics and Policy blog, and providing an update on his research on the personal side of politics, James Weinberg deconstructs the term “political class” and presents some of his findings on the personal values of those who make it up.