In a new blog for our Parliament Overviews series, Florencia Corbelle introduces the Argentinian National Congress.
Month: February 2019
On 18 February, seven Labour MPs resigned from the Party to sit as an independent group. Operating without the formal support of a parliamentary party they will face several institutional barriers to working effectively in the House of Commons, writes our Co-Convener, Louise Thompson.
Dr James Strong looks to history to understand the influence of the House of Commons over the UK’s use of military force abroad, in a blog from our recent Making Sense of Parliaments conference.
In a new blog from our Making Sense of Parliaments conference Nicole Nisbett and Cristina Leston-Bandeira discuss how digital public engagement is organised across different departments within the UK Parliament.
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February 2019 newsletter
We hope you have settled well and truly into the new year and the snow isn’t causing too many headaches.
In this month’s newsletter, we have the following announcements/information:
- Reminder: #PSA19 registration now open
- Survey results
- Essay competition 2019 reminder
- Methods workshop
- News from our members: congrats Dr Sean Haughey!
- Possible event: “Parliamentary Leadership”
- 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) Alex (@A_Meakin) and Seán (@S_Haughey)