This year’s PSA Parliaments Annual Conference is being held in the Centre Building at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Online on Friday 3 November 2023.

This year the conference is bigger than ever before! As can be seen from the conference timetable below, we are for the first time running parallel panels for some sessions due to the large number of quality proposals we received.

We are also holding a pre-conference drinks reception at the George IV pub during the evening of Thursday 2 November 2023 (7pm-9pm). The address is: 28 Portugal St, London WC2A 2HE.

The conference is free to attend (including lunch and refreshments), although attendees will have to cover any travel and accommodation costs. The drinks reception is also free to attend and money will be placed behind the bar so at least your first drink should be free.

Please book your free tickets using these links:

We are very grateful to Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey for helping us to organise the conference and to the Department of Government at the LSE, Parliamentary Affairs and the British Politics journal for co-sponsoring the conference.

Conference Timetable

9.30-10.00

Registration & refreshments

10.00-10.15

Welcome and prize-giving for the PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition (LSE auditorium)

10.15-12.00

Panel 1 (LSE auditorium): Parliamentary inclusion and wellbeing

• Dr Ekaterina Kolpinskaya: Exploring work environment for parliamentarians with disabilities through the lens of parliamentary procedure and lived experiences
• Elizabeth Evans: Accessible Political Institutions? A Comparative Analysis
• James Weinberg: Governing under pressure: an experimental test of the link between politicians’ mental health and decision making in office
• Mari Takayanagi: Necessary Women: women working in Parliament, c. 1800-1950 

12.00-1.00

Lunch

1.00-2.45

Panel 2 (LSE auditorium): Executive-legislative relations

• Steven MacGregor: Comparative analysis of the legislative process – a case-study of Scotland and Wales
• Rebecca McKee and Jess Sargeant: Final report of the Review of the UK Constitution
• Kento Ohara: Executive-Legislative Relations and Party Cohesion in the UK, 1997-2015: A Congressionalising House of Commons
• Tal Elovits: Obstruction, Alternation and the use of Amendments

Panel 3 (CBG.4.17): Comparative Parliamentary Studies

• Marc Geddes: Comparing Evidence Use in Parliaments: the interplay of traditions and practices in the UK House of Commons and German Bundestag
• Miklós Sebők and Rebeka Kiss: The (worst) laws of the land: The concept of legislative basket cases in Central-Eastern Europe
• Narges Mohammadi: Parliament’s Role in the Downfall of the Republic in Afghanistan
• Zachary P Dickson: Elite Legislators and Unequal Representation

2.45-3.15

Refreshments

3.15-5.00

Panel 4 (LSE auditorium): Participation and (dis)engagement

• Alex Prior and Samuel Johnson-Schlee: Go-along research in the UK Parliament
• Cristina Leston-Bandeira and Blagovesta Tacheva: Perceptions of petitioning parliament beyond the usual suspects
• Victor Sokari: When symbols count in governance: Perceived or real citizen (dis) engagement at a sub-national legislature in Nigeria
• Felix Wiebrecht: Turnover in Authoritarian Parliaments and Coups

Panel 5 (CBG.4.17): Legislative behaviour

• Grace Cooper: ‘Popular’ MPs? How do formal parliamentary network structures shape MPs behaviour in the Refugee Policy domain?
• Tom Fleming: Select Committees and Procedural Change in the UK House of Commons
• Wang Leung Ting: Can you hear me? An analysis on how virtual proceeding affected the content and influence of legislative speeches
• Richard Whitaker and Philip Lynch: Divisions in Commons departmental select committees, 2010-2023

Past Annual Conferences

Please visit our YouTube channel to watch recordings of papers given at previous PSA Parliament events.