How do MPs in Bangladesh build and maintain support within their constituencies? Dr Zahir Ahmed discusses fieldwork with MPs in rural Bangladesh.
Month: June 2017
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June 2017 Newsletter
In our June 2017 newsletter we have information on the following for you:
- Qualitative methods workshop
- Study of Parliament Group
- Update to our Annual Conference
- Writing workshop: consultation
- Recently on the blog
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)
PSA Parliaments member, Julia Schwanholz of University of Goettingen, provides an overview of the German Bundestag as part of our Parliament Overviews series.
Being the first without a majority in the Commons or the Lords for 40 years, how will Theresa May’s minority government implement any part of their legislative agenda? How will committees function? Will the smaller parties in the Commons work together? In a blog originally posted on LSE British Politics and Policy, PSA Parliament exec members Marc Geddes, Alexandra Meakin, and Louise Thompson offer a preview of how the 2017 Parliament may function.
PSA Parliaments member, and second-year PhD student, Alex Prior, discusses his PSA placement with the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.
As the UK reacts to the shock outcome of the 8 June General Election, Paul EJ Thomas discusses how the results offered a surprise boost for the two-party system.
Why is the Russian President using senators to introduce bills into the federal legislature? PSA Parliaments Group member Ben Noble discusses the relationship between the Kremlin and the Federal Assembly in a blog originally posted on Presidential Power.