We hope that you are keeping safe and well. We have some updates for you:
- PSA Parliaments 2021 Conference: Parliament at a Critical Juncture
- PSA Annual International Conference 2022
- New Working Paper on Bibliometric Analysis of Parliamentary Studies Journals
- PSA Parliaments at Questions of Accountability Conference
- New Project: Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700
- Other Events: EUGenDem Workshop on Research Findings
- Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
- Recently on the Blog
If you have any notices/messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know.
1. PSA Parliaments 2021 Conference
It is nearly time for our online annual conference on Friday 12th November 2021 but there is still time to sign up!
We have an excellent line-up of panels on the themes of:
- Representatives and representation;
- Accountability and transparency in Parliaments;
- Power(lessness), practices and conventions.
In addition to the panels, we will be announcing the results of our 2021 undergraduate essay prize!
To register (for free) and for full details of the conference and each of the panels, please see here.
2. PSA Annual International Conference 2022
We are delighted to confirm our panels for the Political Studies Association annual conference (PSA22), taking place in York and digitally in April 2022. We have five excellent panels, plus a round-table event Exploring Parliament: Looking to the Future. The themes of our panels are:
- Parliamentary powers, prerogatives, and public engagement
- How MPs use old and new media and how old and new media affects MPs
- How to be a parliamentarian: how do Members participate?
- Comparative and inter-parliamentary analysis
- How to be a parliamentarian? Representation and roles
Full details of each of the panels can be found here.
Registration will open on 15 November, with early bird prices ending on 24 January 2022. The details of registration fees can be found on the PSA22 website.
Thank you to everyone who submitted a paper proposal – we were very impressed with the high standard and look forward to seeing you in York!
3. New Working Paper on Bibliometric Analysis of Parliamentary Studies Journals
To accompany our recent survey of the sub-discipline, the PSA Parliaments team, led by Caroline Bhattacharya, has produced a bibliometric analysis of three parliamentary studies journals: Legislative Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Legislative Studies and Parliamentary Affairs.
Covering the last 25 years, we present findings on authorship and citation patterns, as well as the topics of articles and key publications.
You can read the working paper (and find out whether you and/or your favourite scholars make the most-cited and key publications lists) here.
4. PSA Parliaments at Questions of Accountability Conference
PSA Parliaments are hosting a panel on parliamentary committees and accountability at the Questions of Accountability conference, co-organised by our very own, Chris Monaghan.
The panel is at 10am on Tuesday 2nd November. Full details of the panel and the conference can be found here. You can sign up (for free) here.
5. New Project: Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700
A team led by Professor Paulina Kewes at the University of Oxford has launched a new project, Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700. As part of the project, the team are hosting a blog series on their theme – but ranging more widely in methodology and period coverage – in collaboration with the History of Parliament Trust.
You can follow the project on Twitter here.
6. Other Events: EUGenDem Workshop on Research Findings
Our good friends at EUGenDem are holding an online workshop on 19th November 2021 at 10:00-12:00 EET (9:00-11:00 CET) to present research findings from their project Gender, party politics, and democracy in Europe: Studying European Parliament’s political groups.
Full details of the workshop and how to sign up can be found here.
7. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Sarah Dingler and Lena Ramstetter have a FirstView article in Government & Opposition entitled When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour
Andrés Dockendorff, Ricardo Gamboa and Marcel Aubry have published a research note in Representation entitled Substantive Representation of Women’s Interests: Chile, 1990–2020
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
8. Recently on the Blog
We have recently published one great blog:
- Parliaments are watching to make sure climate legislation has an impact by Rafael Jimenez Aybar and Franklin De Vrieze
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris.