We hope that you are keeping safe and well. We have some updates for you:
- PSA Annual International Conference 2022
- PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition 2022
- Urgent Questions with Jonathan Tonge
- Book Launch: Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees
- Job Opportunity at the University of East Anglia
- Other Events
- 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 Annual International Conference 2022
Registration has opened for the 2022 PSA Annual Conference being held in York and digitally in April 2022. If you haven’t booked yet, early bird prices have been extended to 4th February 2022. Full details of the conference and how to register can be found on the PSA22 website.
As announced previously, we are running five panels and a roundtable on Exploring Parliament: Looking to the Future.
Whether in person or online, we hope to see you there!
2. PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition 2022
We are pleased to announce the launch of our 2022 Undergraduate Essay Competition! The winner will be presented with a prize of £100 and a runner-up prize of £50 at our annual conference in November 2022.
The competition is open to all undergraduate students who have submitted a piece of assessed work which contributes to our understanding of parliaments or legislatures.
Full details of the competition can be found here.
3. Urgent Questions with Jonathan Tonge
This month’s interviewee is the outgoing editor of Parliamentary Affairs, Prof. Jonathan Tonge.
Put on your Fred Perry, get yourself a suedehead and head on over to Urgent Questions to read about some great mod bands and – what is frankly – a shocking answer to a question about Star Wars.
4. Book Launch: Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees
We are delighted to announce that PSA Parliaments will be co-hosting the book launch of Cheryl Schonhardt Bailey’s forthcoming monograph Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees (Oxford University Press).
The launch will take place virtually on Wednesday 9th March 2022 between 3:00pm and 4:30pm GMT.
Full details of the event, including how to register, can be found here.
5. Job Opportunity at the University of East Anglia
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the ESRC’s flagship Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) at the University of East Anglia as a Senior Research Associate in Policy, Politics and Climate Change (Fixed-term).
The post holder will join an international team of scholars to conduct research on politicians’ role in accelerating climate mitigation in upcoming decades, commensurate with limiting climate change to 1.5 or 2°C of warming.
Full details can be found here.
6. Other Events
ECPR General Conference, University of Innsbruck, 22–26 August 2022
The ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments have released a call for papers for their section of the 2022 ECPR General Conference.
Full details can be found here.
Global Conference on Parliamentary studies, Budapest, 12-13 May 2022
The University of Public Service, Ludovika, have released a call for papers for a forthcoming global conference on parliamentary studies.
Full details can be found here.
7. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Larissa Peixoto Vale Gomes has published an article called Bang for the Buck: Brazil’s Electoral and Political Financing Rules from a Gendered Perspective in E-Legis.
Brighton Msagalla and Marianna Visser have published an article called Agenda-setting through topic shift in Tanzanian parliamentary debate: The derailment of strategic manoeuvring in Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies.
Alexander Hemingway has published an article called Does Class Shape Legislators’ Approach to Inequality and Economic Policy? A Comparative View in Government & Opposition.
Louise Thompson and Mitya Pearson have published an article called ‘Enter parliament but never become part of it’: How have the Greens in the United Kingdom approached opposition? in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
Peter Buisseret and Carlo Prato have published an article called Competing Principals? Legislative Representation in List Proportional Representation Systems in the American Journal of Political Science.
Mark Goodwin, Stephen Holden Bates and Stephen McKay have an article called Electing to Do Women’s Work? Gendered Divisions of Labor in U.K. Select Committees, 1979–2016 in the latest issue of Politics & Gender.
Lotte Hargrave and Tone Langengen have published an article called The Gendered Debate: Do Men and Women Communicate Differently in the House of Commons? also in the latest issue of Politics & Gender.
The Westminster Foundation for Democracy have recently released three new publications:
- Post-legislative scrutiny in the UK Parliament by Tom Caygill;
- Comparative analysis of the UK Bribery Act 2010 and anti-bribery legislation in Ukraine, Indonesia, and Kenya by Rob McCusker;
- An introduction to deliberative democracy for members of parliament by Julia Keutgen.
Kevin Orr and Sabina Siebert have published a Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) Briefing called The Scottish Parliament: how the Parliament building shapes the workings of the institution.
A new issue of Parliamentary Affairs has been published, featuring a special collection on Parliaments as Workplaces: Gendered Approaches to the Study of Legislatures edited by Josefina Erikson and Tània Verge.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
8. Recently on the Blog
We published 8 (eight) great blogs in January!
- “Tread carefully” – the UK Parliament as a human rights “defender” within the Northern Ireland devolution framework by Leah Rea
- Exposing the hidden wiring of the Parliament by Ben Yong
- Does being watched make MPs behave better? by Ben Worthy and Cat Morgan
- A committee is an organisation, not an institution – but what is an organisation? A response mainly to myself by Stephen Holden Bates
- Reimagining impeachment: A new blueprint for our challenging times by Chris Monaghan
- What does petitioning in the 20th century show us about the relationship between people and parliament? by Anna Bocking-Welch, Richard Huzzey, Cristina Leston-Bandeira and Henry Miller
- Intersectional representation of Arab legislators in the Israeli parliament: The first decade 1949-1959 by Osnat Akirav
- What ever happened to impeachment in the United Kingdom? Accountability, history and the decline of parliamentary impeachment by Chris Monaghan
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris.