Happy New Year! We have some updates for you in this slightly later than normal newsletter:
- PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022: Extra Online Panels!
- PSA Annual Conference 2023 in Liverpool & Online
- Urgent Questions with Emma Crewe
- PSA Parliaments Book Launch: Henry J. Miller’s A Nation of Petitioners
- IPSA RCLS Online Seminars on Legislative & Parliamentary Committees
- Call for Papers: RCLS at the IPSA World Congress
- Call for Papers: Party Politics at the Local Level
- Job Opportunity: Research Fellowship – Addressing Barriers in Political Engagement
- Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
- Recently on the Blog
If you have any notices/messages you would like us to circulate to our prizewinning group, please let us know.
Best wishes
Stephen, Seán, Caroline, Chris and Ruxandra.
1. PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022: Extra Online Panels!
After a very successful annual conference in Birmingham at the start of November, PSA Parliaments will be holding two extra online panels in the new year.
Our first panel is on representatives and representation and will be held on Wednesday 25th January 2023 at 2pm (GMT).
Full details of the panel, including how to book tickets (for free) can be found here.
Our second panel is called Parliaments & Parliamentarians in Context and will be held on Wednesday 15th February 2023 at 2pm (GMT).
Full details of the panel, including how to book tickets (for free) can be found here.
2. PSA Annual Conference 2023 in Liverpool & Online
Registration has opened for the 2023 PSA Annual Conference being held in Liverpool and virtually in April 2023. Early bird registration ends on 4 February 2023, and accepted paper-givers must register by then to guarantee their place. Full details of the conference and how to register can be found on the PSA23 website.
The PSA offers support to UK based PhD students and early career researchers as well as scholars from the Global South. See the website for more information.
We are running at least four panels. More information will follow soon.
Whether in person or online, we hope to see you there!
3. Urgent Questions with Emma Crewe
This month’s interviewee is Professor Emma Crewe (SOAS)!
Head over to Urgent Questions to read about Himachal Pradesh, Rodin, Bourdieu, and chatting to daughters!
4. PSA Parliaments Book Launch: Henry J. Miller’s A Nation of Petitioners
We are delighted to announce that PSA Parliaments will be hosting a book launch for Henry J. Miller’s new book, A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
The event will take place via Zoom on Wednesday 3rd May at 2pm BST.
Full details, including how to book your free ticket, can be found here.
5. IPSA RCLS Online Seminars on Legislative & Parliamentary Committees
Our very good friends on IPSA’s Research Committee of Legislative Specialists are holding two online seminars in the new year on legislative and parliamentary committees.
The first is On the Outskirts of Parliament – the Delegation for Women’s Rights where Claire Bloquet (Institute for Parliamentary Research, Berlin) will be discussing their prize-winning work about the French National Assembly. The seminar will take place on Monday 23rd January 2023, 14:00–15:30 UTC.
Full details of the event, including how to book your free tickets, can be found here.
The second is a book launch for Maya Kornberg‘s Inside Congressional Committees: Function and Dysfunction in the Legislative Process (Columbia University Press). The launch will take place on Monday 13th February 2023, 14:00–15:30 UTC.
Full details of the event, including how to book your free tickets, can be found here.
If you are not yet a member of RCLS, you can join (for free) here.
6. Call for Papers: RCLS at the IPSA World Congress
RCLS are also hosting a number of panels at the IPSA World Congress in Buenos Aires and online, 15-19 July 2023.
Please see here for more details.
7. Call for Papers: Party Politics at the Local Level
The call for papers for the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2023 in Toulouse (25-28 April) is open until January, 9, 2023.
One workshop is endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments. It concerns ‘Party Politics at the Local Level’ and will be directed by Simon Otjes (Leiden University) and Christina-Marie Juen (Darmstadt University).
This Workshop aims to shed more light on the role of political parties in local politics. It focuses on the interaction, competition and cooperation between parties in the electoral arena and local councils.
More information can be found here.
8. Job Opportunity: Research Fellowship – Addressing Barriers in Political Engagement
Are you interested in working on perceptions and barriers to political engagement? If so, this post may be for you.
You’d be working with Prof. Cristina Leston-Bandeira together with staff in the UK and Welsh Parliaments to explore people’s perceptions of political engagement through focus groups.
Deadline for application: 10 January 2023. Feel free to contact Cristina for more details.
9. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Philip Cowley and Resul Umit have published Legislator Dissent Does Not Affect Electoral Outcomes in the British Journal of Political Science.
Simon Weschle has published Politicians’ Private Sector Jobs and Parliamentary Behavior in the American Journal of Political Science.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
10. Recently on the Blog
We published two great blogs last month:
- Procedural Vetos and Parliamentary Sovereignty by Adam Tucker; and
- We need reform of the legislative process to empower Parliament by Jess Sargeant
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris.