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Welcome to the Constituency: the social and political intertwined in Bangladesh

How do MPs in Bangladesh build and maintain support within their constituencies? Dr Zahir Ahmed discusses fieldwork with MPs in rural Bangladesh.

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June 2017 Newsletter

In our June 2017 newsletter we have information on the following for you:

  1. Qualitative methods workshop
  2. Study of Parliament Group
  3. Update to our Annual Conference
  4. Writing workshop: consultation
  5. Recently on the blog

If you have any notices / messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know (including events, new research projects, grants, publications, etc.). Or other ideas for the group and feedback for us, they’re welcome too!

Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Alex (@A_Meakin) and Leanne (@LeanneMarieC)

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Deutscher Bundestag: To the German People

PSA Parliaments member, Julia Schwanholz of University of Goettingen, provides an overview of the German Bundestag as part of our Parliament Overviews series.

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Weak government, strong parliament? A preview of Theresa May’s legislative challenges

Being the first without a majority in the Commons or the Lords for 40 years, how will Theresa May’s minority government implement any part of their legislative agenda? How will committees function? Will the smaller parties in the Commons work together? In a blog originally posted on LSE British Politics and Policy, PSA Parliament exec members Marc Geddes, Alexandra Meakin, and Louise Thompson offer a preview of how the 2017 Parliament may function.

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Working in Parliament: Reflections on my PSA Placement

PSA Parliaments member, and second-year PhD student, Alex Prior, discusses his PSA placement with the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

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UK Election 2017: The real winner is the two-party system

As the UK reacts to the shock outcome of the 8 June General Election, Paul EJ Thomas discusses how the results offered a surprise boost for the two-party system.

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Presidential proxies: Cloaked law-making in contemporary Russia

Why is the Russian President using senators to introduce bills into the federal legislature? PSA Parliaments Group member Ben Noble discusses the relationship between the Kremlin and the Federal Assembly in a blog originally posted on Presidential Power.

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A New Dawn for the French Parliament?

PSA Parliaments member Rainbow Murray looks ahead to the French legislative elections on 11 and 18 June and discusses an “unprecedented opportunity for renewal within the French Parliament”.

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Annual conference and lecture 2017

Legislatures in Uncertain Times

Friday 17 November 2017, Edinburgh

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May 2017 newsletter

This month, we have lots of detailed information on the following for you:

  1. Our Annual Conference in November!
  2. Qualitative methods workshop
  3. Essay Competition 2017
  4. Writing workshop: consultation
  5. French legislative elections
  6. PSA branding changes
  7. Recently on the blog

Apologies that there is lots to read!! But we hope that some – if not – all of the below will be interesting.

If you have any notices / messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know (including events, new research projects, grants, publications, etc.). Or other ideas for the group and feedback for us, they’re welcome too!

Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Alex (@A_Meakin) and Leanne (@LeanneMarieC)