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PSA Parliaments at #PSA24

PSA Parliaments will be convening a number of panels at PSA24. The 74th Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association will be held in Glasgow between 25-27 March 2024 (full details can be found here).

The submission process is the same as last year. All specialist groups have an exclusive timeframe until the 8th September for them to receive papers and propose panels ahead of the open call later in the autumn..

If you would like to propose a paper or a panel to be held under the auspices of the PSA Parliaments group, then please fill out this form.

As always, we do not have any preferences in terms of theory, method or empirical focus and we welcome papers from PhD students through to professors, as well as from practitioners. We are fully committed to avoiding all-male panels. We are also seeking to increase the proportion of papers on our panels from people from an ethnic minority background so please get in touch with Seán if you come from an ethnic minority background and would like to discuss how your research could be highlighted on our panels.

We hope to see as many of you there as possible for what promises to be another great conference!

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PSA Parliaments at #PSA22

The PSA Annual International Conference (PSA22) was held last month in York and online, providing an opportunity for our fantastic community of scholars and practitioners in parliamentary and legislative studies to finally meet up in person, three years after the last PSA in Nottingham in 2019, but also allowing others to contribute virtually through the hybrid proceedings.

The PSA Annual International Conference (PSA22) was held last month in York and online, providing an opportunity for our fantastic community of scholars and practitioners in parliamentary and legislative studies to finally meet up in person, three years after the last PSA in Nottingham in 2019, but also allowing others to contribute virtually through the hybrid proceedings.

We were delighted to host an exceptional and very well attended programme of PSA Parliament panels, featuring ground-breaking research on parliaments and legislatures from around the globe, across five panels and a roundtable on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th April.

Monday started with our panel How to be a parliamentarian? Representation and roles, in which David C.W. Parker and Jeffrey L. Lazarus (Montana State University-Bozeman, Georgia State University) explored public spending and constituency data in the UK Parliament; Caroline Bhattacharya, Stephen Holden Bates, Stephen McKay (University of Helsinki, University of Birmingham, University of Lincoln) considered how the roles of backbench MPs’ roles changed between 1979 and 2019. Luai Allarakia (University of Richmond) examined conflict within Kuwait’s National Assembly and Omomayowa Olawale Abati (Stellenbosch University) considered youth representation in Nigeria’s Lower National Legislature.

We hosted a roundtable during Monday lunchtime, chaired by Cristina Leston-Bandeira and Louise Thompson, as part of the planning process for a second edition of the successful Exploring Parliament textbook. The roundtable featured the most senior official in the House of Lords—the Clerk of the Parliaments, Simon Burton, and House of Commons Principal Clerk, Farrah Bhatti, in addition to leading parliamentary scholars Sarah Childs and Jack Sheldon.

Our final Monday panel How to be a parliamentarian: how do Members participate? featured Donald Keya Manyala and Benson Inzofu Mwale (Parliament of Kenya) presenting their paper: Participation of Minority Legislators in Legislative Business at the National Assembly of Kenya; Alia Middleton, Louise Thompson (University of Surrey, University of Manchester) examining the parliamentary lives of former UK Prime Ministers and Joel Martinsson (Linnaeus University / Swedish Parliament) considering when and why Swedish parliamentarians submit motions on behalf of special interest organizations.

On Tuesday our day started with Felix Wiebrecht, (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) presenting his research on legislatures in authoritarian regimes; James Strong (Queen Mary University of London) exploring whether UK War Powers Convention fundamentally changed the House of Commons’ influence over the use of force;Temitayo Odeyemi, Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Alexander Beresford (University of Leeds) considering non-state actors and Nigeria’s national-subnational legislative public engagement; and Alexandra Meakin (University of Leeds) discussing public engagement and the Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster, as part of our panel Parliamentary powers, prerogatives, and public engagement.

Our second panel of the day, How MPs use old and new media and how old and new media affects MPs, started with research from James Weinberg (University of Sheffield) on the mental health of politicians in the UK, Canada and South Africa; Tevfik Murat Yildirim, Gunnar Thesen (University of Stavanger, Norway) then discussed the public visibility of Members of Parliament in the UK and Sebastian Ludwicki-Ziegler (University of Stirling) explored parliamentarians’ communication strategies.

Our final panel of the day (and conference!), on Comparative and inter-parliamentary analysis included papers from Margaret Arnott (University of the West of Scotland) interparliamentary relations in the devolved UK; André Vella (University of Birmingham) on parliamentary privilege in Commonwealth legislatures; Franklin De Vrieze (Westminster Foundation for Democracy) on the oversight role of parliaments in public debt management; and finally Sebastian Ludwicki-Ziegler, Mark Shephard (University of Stirling, University of Strathclyde) comparing personal attacks and positive self-reference in exchanges between the Conservatives and SNP in PMQs and FMQs.

Thank you to all our paper-givers and attendees (virtual and in-person) for sharing your research and offering excellent perspectives and questions the papers provided. Thank you also the local University of York team for convening the conference, and to Grace Cooper who ensured all the tech ran smoothly.

The location of the next PSA conference has been announced as Liverpool and we look forward to yet another excellent set of parliaments panels.

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Special Newsletter about #PSA22

The timetable for the PSA Annual Conference, which is being held in York and online between the 11th and 13th March 2022, has been released.

All of the PSA Parliaments panels and roundtables are being held on the Monday and Tuesday. You can find full details of them on the conference timetable, on our website or, more quickly, below.

We hope to see you – either in-person or virtually – at the conference!

PSA Parliaments Timetable for #PSA22
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PSA Parliaments at #PSA23

PSA Parliaments will be convening a number of panels at PSA23. The 73rd Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association will be held in Liverpool and online between 3-5 April 2023 (full details can be found here).

The submission process is different from previous years in that specialist groups have been given an exclusive timeframe until the 12th September for them to receive papers and propose panels ahead of the open call in October.

If you would like to propose a paper or a panel to be held under the auspices of the prize-winning PSA Parliaments group, then please fill out this form.

As always, we do not have any preferences in terms of theory, method or empirical focus and we welcome papers from PhD students through to professors, as well as from practitioners. We are fully committed to avoiding all-male panels. We are also seeking to increase the proportion of papers on our panels from people from an ethnic minority background so please get in touch with Alexandra if you come from an ethnic minority background and would like to discuss how your research could be highlighted on our panels.

We hope to see as many of you there as possible for what promises to be another great conference!

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PSA Parliaments at #PSA22

We are delighted to confirm our panels for the Political Studies Association annual conference (PSA22), taking place in York and digitally in April 2022. We have five excellent panels, plus a round-table event Exploring Parliament: Looking to the Future. Full details of the timings and rooms can be found here.

How to be a parliamentarian? Representation and roles

  • David C.W. Parker, Jeffrey L. Lazarus (Montana State University-Bozeman, Georgia State University): Bringing the Bacon Back to Bassetlaw: Distributive Politics and the UK Parliament
  • Caroline Bhattacharya, Stephen Holden Bates, Stephen McKay (University of Helsinki, University of Birmingham, University of Lincoln): Backbench MPs’ roles, 1979-2019: a latent class analysis
  • Luai Allarakia (University of Richmond): Dimensions of Conflict in the Absence of Programmatic Parties: The Case of Kuwait’s National Assembly
  • Omomayowa Olawale Abati (Stellenbosch University): Is Lowering the Minimum Age of Candidacy Enough? The Politics of Youth Representation in Nigeria’s Lower National Legislature

Exploring Parliament: Looking to the Future

  • Farrah Bhatti (Principal Clerk of Select Committees, House of Commons)
  • Simon Burton (Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords)
  • Sarah Childs (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  • Jack Sheldon (Cambridge University)

How to be a parliamentarian: how do Members participate?

  • Donald Keya Manyala, Benson Inzofu Mwale (Parliament of Kenya): Participation of Minority Legislators in Legislative Business at the National Assembly of Kenya
  • Alia Middleton, Louise Thompson (University of Surrey, University of Manchester): The awkward squad? The parliamentary lives of former Prime Ministers
  • Wang Leung Ting (London School of Economics and Political Science): Can you hear me? An analysis on how virtual proceeding affected the content and influence of legislative speeches
  • Joel Martinsson (Linnaeus University / Swedish Parliament): Access Granted, Access Denied: When and why Swedish parliamentarians submit motions on behalf of special interest organizations

How MPs use old and new media and how old and new media affects MPs

  • James Weinberg (University of Sheffield): “I’ve had to teach myself to laugh at people calling me a liar and ugly and fat and all the rest of it. And try to remember it’s not really about me, even the death threats.” Feelings of distrust, emotional labour and mental health in political office
  • Tevfik Murat Yildirim, Gunnar Thesen (University of Stavanger, Norway): The Media Coverage and Public Visibility of Members of Parliament in the UK
  • Sebastian Ludwicki-Ziegler (University of Stirling): Parliamentarians’ Communication Strategies: The Choice between being in Control and outsourcing Control to Parliamentary Assistants

Parliamentary powers, prerogatives, and public engagement

  • Felix Wiebrecht (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): (Mis)Using Parliament: Why Do Legislatures Become Stronger in Authoritarian Regimes?
  • James Strong (Queen Mary University of London): Did the UK War Powers Convention fundamentally change the House of Commons’ influence over the use of force?
  • Temitayo Odeyemi, Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Alexander Beresford (University of Leeds): From space invasion, to value mediation, and everything in-between: Situating non-state actors and Nigeria’s national-subnational legislative public engagement
  • Alexandra Meakin (University of Leeds): Rebuilding the People’s Parliament – public engagement and the Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster

Comparative and inter-parliamentary analysis

  • Margaret Arnott (University of the West of Scotland): Constitutional Governance and Common Frameworks: Interparliamentary Relations in the Devolved UK
  • André Vella (University of Birmingham): Parliamentary Privilege in Commonwealth Legislatures
  • Franklin De Vrieze (Westminster Foundation for Democracy): Measuring the oversight role of parliaments in public debt management
  • Sebastian Ludwicki-Ziegler, Mark Shephard (University of Stirling, University of Strathclyde): Hostile or Consensual?: A Comparative Study of Personal Attacks and Positive Self-Reference in Exchanges between the Conservatives and SNP in PMQs and FMQs

Details of how to register can be found on the PSA22 website.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a paper proposal – we were very impressed with the high standard and look forward to seeing you in York!

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Parliamentary Studies is for Everybody

A One-Day Workshop co-organised by the UK Political Studies Association specialist groups:

  • PSA Parliaments
  • PSA Race, Migration & Intersectionality
  • PSA Women & Politics

Inspired by the recent textbook, Political Science is for Everybody, the Parliaments, Race, Migration & Intersectionality, and Women & Politics specialist groups of the UK Political Studies Association are organising a workshop entitled Parliamentary Studies is for Everybody.

The aim of the workshop is to explore parliaments (and legislatures) at the intersections: how different groups of people engage with, access, navigate and experience parliaments; how parliaments and particular parliamentary institutions might be biased towards certain groups; and how this context might influence parliamentary activity, legislative outcomes and the broader policy-making process.

The workshop will be held via Zoom on Friday 28th January 2022. The format of the workshop will be that we focus on each paper in turn with authors providing only a brief introduction, followed by an in-depth discussion, intended to improve the paper. To this end, everyone will be expected to distribute their working papers a week beforehand to give other participants enough time to read them all and draw up comments.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please email a title and 200-word abstract to Stephen Holden Bates by 29th October 2021. We welcome applications from PhD students to professors, and we do not have any preference in terms of theory and method, or on which parliament(s) and/or legislature(s) you study. We particularly welcome applications from people who are from underrepresented groups in political science and academia more broadly.

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Call for Papers: #PSA22

We are delighted to launch our call for papers for the PSA Parliaments panels within the 2022 PSA Annual Conference (#PSA22).

The conference is currently planned to be a blend of a physical and digital event taking place online and in York, between 10-13 April 2022 with the theme: Politics from the Margins. Full details of the conference, including the current plans for digital-only attendees can be found here.

If you would like to present a paper or organise a panel under the auspices of the PSA Parliaments group, then please submit the relevant form(s), which can be found below, to Alexandra and Stephen by Monday 4th October.

Paper proposal form for #PSA22Download
Panel proposal form for #PSA22Download

We welcome papers from PhD students through to professors and we are fully committed to avoiding manels. We are also seeking to increase the proportion of papers on our panels from people from an ethnic minority background so please get in touch with Alexandra or Stephen if you come from an ethnic minority background and would like to discuss how your research could be highlighted on our panels.

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PSA Conference Panels

We’re delighted to announce our panels for the PSA Annual Conference 2021, which is taking place online 29th-31st March.

Thank you to everyone who submitted paper and panel proposals – we have a fantastic selection of research to showcase over five panels as detailed below.

Registration is now open. We look forward to seeing you virtually!

Questions, content, and language in parliamentary proceedings

Issue Ownership vs Wave-Riding: an evaluation of Priority Congruence between political parties and the public in Questions to the Prime Minister (Mark Shepherd, Mia McGraith Burns)

PMQs and FMQs: A comparative analysis of personalisation and face-threatening acts in questions to Ministers (Sebastian Ludwicki-Ziegler)

Language and Participation in Turbulent Times: A linguistic analysis of turn-taking and floor apportionment in the in the UK House of Commons 2018-2020 (Sylvia Shaw)

Representation and diversity in the legislature

From Designing to Building a Feminist House: Proxy Voting for ‘Baby Leave’, A Case Study (Sarah Childs)

From Candidate to Elected Member: How does Structured and Informal Induction Shape the Roles of MPs in the UK and Canada? (Louise Cockram)

Doing the Lords’ Business: How Pre-Political Careers Shape Legislative Engagement in the British House of Lords (David Parker, Allison Reinhardt, Sheridan Johnson)

Server to the People: Measuring Dyadic Representation Using Twitter Data (Daniel Braby, Marius Sältzer)

Parliamentary relations and powers

Legitimacy and Representative Democracy: Inter-parliamentary Relations in the Devolved UK (Margaret Arnott)

Minority government in the UK: Why do they form? (Andrew Jones)

Parliamentary impact on Government legislation: the Scottish Parliament from 1999-2019 (Steven MacGregor)

Parliamentary Influence on Brexit Legislation: Who, What, and When?’ (Tom Fleming)

Parliament’s relationship with anti-corruption agencies in Indonesia, Pakistan and the Maldives (Franklin De Vrieze)

Parliaments and the pandemic

Small parties and legislatures during the coronavirus pandemic (Louise Thompson, Alexandra Meakin)

Impact of House of Common hybrid proceeding on members participation during COVID-19 pandemic (Wang Leung Ting)

Voices of European Parliament: Concerns, Expectations and Opportunities for EU and its International Partners During Covid-19 (Tugba Aydin Halisoglu)

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PSA Annual Conference 2021

The 2021 PSA Annual Conference was due to be held in Belfast but now will be fully on-line. The conference theme is “Resilience. Expertise. Hope”.

Full details of the conference can be found here.

PSA Parliaments can host up to 8 panels at the conference.

If you would like to present a paper or organise a panel under the auspices of the PSA Parliaments group, then please submit one or both of the forms below to Alexandra and Stephen by Thursday 22nd October.

We welcome papers from PhD students through to professors and we are fully committed to avoiding manels.

Paper proposal form for the 2021 PSA Annual ConferenceDownload
Panel proposal form for the 2021 PSA Annual ConferenceDownload

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PSA Parliaments 2020 Conference: Parliaments in 20/20 Vision

The PSA Parliaments 2020 Annual Conference will be held on 12-13 November at the Council House, Birmingham.

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