We hope you’re well. We have some updates for you:
- PSA Parliaments at PSA23!
- PSA Parliaments Book Launch: Henry J. Miller’s A Nation of Petitioners
- PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022: Extra Online Panel
- PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition
- PSA Trustee Elections
- ALCS Membership: Public Service Announcement
- 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 group, please let us know.
Best wishes
Stephen, Seán, Caroline, Chris and Ruxandra.
1. PSA Parliaments at PSA23!
We had a great time in Liverpool for the Annual PSA Conference.
We convened four panels on parliamentary processes and procedures, comparative analysis of legislatures, scrutiny and legislation, and rhetoric and representation, which were all very well attended and which all contained some very interesting and important papers.
We believe all panels were recorded by the conference organisers so, if you missed the conference or just want to relive the experience, you’ll hopefully have access to all presentations soon.
2. 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.
The book launch is part of our Online Brown Bag Seminar Series. If you have an article or book that has been accepted for publication and you would like to present it as part of our series, then please get in contact with Stephen.
3. PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022: Extra Online Panel
We have not forgotten about our postponed online panel Parliaments & Parliamentarians in Context.
We will be rearranging this panel very soon and will hopefully announce a new date and time next month.
Details of the panel can be found here.
4. PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition
Our undergraduate essay competition is running again this year!
Many of you have probably been busy marking over the last few weeks. If one of your undergraduate students has produced an exceptional piece of work, then please consider submitting it on their behalf (no self-nominations allowed).
Every year we want to reward the best assignments written by UK-based undergraduate students on any aspect of parliamentary and legislative studies. The entries which display the most originality, analytical rigour and significant contributions to the field will be awarded a prize of £100 for the winner and £50 for the runner-up.
The closing date is 12th June 2023.
Full details of the competition, including how to submit nominations, can be found here. For any questions, please get in touch with Caroline.
5. PSA Trustee Elections
Two of our members, Nicholas Allen and Matthew Hepplewhite, are standing to become trustees of the PSA.
You can read their pitches and details of how to vote here.
6. ALCS Membership: Public Service Announcement
If you publish books and in journals that are based in the UK and you are not yet a member, then please consider joining the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Societyso you can receive payment for secondary uses of your work.
One of our convenors hadn’t even heard of it until this time last year and doesn’t know why this isn’t the first thing you are told when you start your PhD.
Anyway, it can earn you hundreds and even thousands of pounds each year!
7. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Orly Siow has recently published two articles: Needles in a haystack: an intersectional analysis of the descriptive, constitutive and substantive representation of minoritised women in the European Journal of Politics and Gender and What Constitutes Substantive Representation, and Where Should We Evaluate It? in Political Studies Review.
Nic Cheeseman and Marie-Eve Desrosiers have published How (not) to engage with authoritarian states and Douglas Thorkell has published Futureproofing democracy: Principles of foresight-based policy analysis and stress-testing for national parliaments and governments, both with the Westminster Fotw-text-wideundation for Democracy.
Franklin De Vrieze has published Advancing parliamentary innovation through Post-Legislative Scrutiny in The Parliamentarian.
Jelena Lončar has published Evoking the resemblance: Descriptive representation of ethnic minorities in Ethnicities.
Meg Russell has published a working paper House of Lords reform: navigating the obstacles with the Bennett Institute for Public Policy.
And new issues of the Journal of Legislative Studies and the International Journal of Parliamentary Studies have been published.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
8. Recently on the Blog
We didn’t publish anything this past month because we were too busy on the picket lines winning back our pensions and trying to get better pay and conditions.
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris.