Month: March 2018

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March 2018 newsletter

Welcome to the March edition of our newsletter, which is packed full. It includes:

  1. PSA Annual Conference 2018 – reminder
  2. Statistical Analysis of Parliaments for Dabblers – 25 May
  3. Essay Competition
  4. Book announcements
  5. Inquiry by the House of Lords Constitution Committee
  6. Call for Papers: From Old Corruption to New Corruption
  7. Recently on our 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) and Alexandra (@A_Meakin)

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Revisiting Tony King’s analysis shows just how much parliament has changed

Image courtesy of UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor. Parliamentary copyright.

Meg Russell and Philip Cowley discuss Anthony King’s seminal 1976 article ‘Modes of executive–legislative relations: Great Britain, France and West Germany’.

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“Living this written life”: Early impressions from a fieldwork study of parliamentary engagement through narrative

In the latest blog from our Legislatures in Uncertain Times conference, Alex Prior (University of Leeds) discusses the use of ‘narrative’ as a means of strengthening parliamentary engagement.

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Changing times? The shifting gender balance of Scottish Parliament committee witnesses

In the latest blog from our Legislatures in Uncertain Times conference, Anouk Berthier (Scottish Parliament) and Hugh Bochel (University of Lincoln) discuss their research into the diversity of witnesses to committees in the Scottish Parliament.

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