We hope you’re well. We have some updates for you:
- PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022: Extra Online Panels!
- PSA Annual Conference 2023 in Liverpool & Online
- Urgent Questions with Mark Bennister
- PSA Parliaments Book Launch: Henry J. Miller’s A Nation of Petitioners
- New Overview of the US Congress!
- IPSA RCLS Online Seminars on Legislative & Parliamentary Committees
- Call for Papers: ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments Conference
- Gen+ParlNet Online Seminar: Designing for Listening in Feminist Democratic Representation
- Gendering Multi-Level Parliamentary Democracy Workshop
- Tribute to Jean Blondel
- 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 Panel!
After a very successful annual conference in Birmingham at the start of November, PSA Parliaments will be holding another extra online panel.
At the moment, Parliaments & Parliamentarians in Context 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.
However, this date is currently a strike day for the on-going UCU industrial action. If employers have not given staff in UK higher education a decent pay rise, restored lost pension benefits and addressed casualisation, workload and the gender and ethnicity pay gaps by then, and the strike day goes ahead, we will need to move the seminar. We will send round an update on this at some point before the 15th.
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 Mark Bennister
This month’s interviewee is Dr Mark Bennister (University of Lincoln)!
Head over to Urgent Questions to read about record shops, frozen rabbits, synchronised swimming and lots, lots more!
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.
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.
5. New Overview of the US Congress!
Many thanks to Caroline Leicht for writing an overview of the US Congress for our website!
You can read Caroline’s overview, as well as many others, here.
If you would like to write an overview of a parliament or legislature not yet coloured red on one of our maps (and the UK is notable for still being grey!), then please let Chris know.
6. IPSA RCLS Online Seminars on Legislative & Parliamentary Committees
Our very good friends on IPSA’s Research Committee of Legislative Specialists are holding another online seminars on legislative committees.
The book launch of Maya Kornberg‘s Inside Congressional Committees: Function and Dysfunction in the Legislative Process (Columbia University Press) 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.
7. Call for Papers: ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments
The ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments will host its 8th conference in Vienna from Thursday July 6th to Saturday July 8th, 2023. There is no regional or methodological restriction.
Please see here for more details, including how to submit a proposal.
8. Gen+ParlNet Online Seminar: Designing for Listening in Feminist Democratic Representation
Gen+ParlNet are holding on online seminar on Thursday, 2nd February at 15:30 (Brussels time). The title of the seminar is Designing for Listening in Feminist Democratic Representation. The presenters are Karen Celis and Sarah Childs and the discussant is Mette Marie Stæhr Harder.
To sign up, please email Mette Marie Stæhr Harder or Cherry Miller.
9. Gendering Multi-Level Parliamentary Democracy Workshop
Cherry Miller is organising a hybrid international workshop to explore parliaments as both gendered workplaces and gendered sites of policy-making at multiple state levels.
Full details of the workshop, including how to book your free ticket, can be found here.
10. Tribute to Jean Blondel
PSA Parliaments were very sad to hear the news that Jean Blondel, who made such a contribution to parliamentary and legislative studies, as well as political science more broadly, had died on Christmas Day.
You can read a tribute to him written by his colleague and friend, David Sanders, here.
11. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Ville Aula and Tapio Raunio have published The conditions of committee importance – drawing lessons from a qualitative case study of Finland in the Journal of Legislative Studies.
Xuhong Su and Wenbo Chen has published Pathways to women’s electoral representation: the global effectiveness of legislative gender quotas over time also in the Journal of Legislative Studies.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
12. Recently on the Blog
We published two great blogs last month:
- Evidence use by parliamentary committees: what is it good for? by Mark Geddes; and
- Information Literacy for Scrutiny: Equality and Diversity in Research by Anne-Lise Harding
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris.