Effectiveness of select committees

Steve McKay and colleagues from Birmingham, Coventry and the LSE have published two blogs on the PSA Parliaments Group website. One examines the effectiveness of select committees in...

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Westminster Workshop on Gender Sensitive Scrutiny

On 17 June, Hugh Bochel participated in the CPA UK Westminster Workshop on Gender Sensitive Scrutiny, as part of a panel with Baroness Barker, Sarah Champion MP and...

Possible workshop event on parliamentary leadership

The PSA Parliaments Group and PSA Political Leadership Group are exploring a possible academic event/workshop to consider leadership in parliaments, such as the changing role of the Speaker,...

Call for papers – PSA Parliaments and Legislatures Annual Conference

PSA Parliaments and Legislatures Annual Conference Details of annual conference. This year, the conference will take place in Cardiff, at the National Assembly for Wales, on Thursday, 07...

Mark Bennister presents at workshop on ethnography in Parliament

Mark Bennister gave a presentation on his work at the PSA Parliaments and Legislatures qualitative methods workshop on ethnography in Parliament in May 2019.        

Hugh Bochel visits University of Malta

Hugh Bochel visited the University of Malta from 30 April to 3 May, including to give two talks on Brexit. The visit was facilitated by Dr Jean Claude...

Article published on the scrutiny of legislation

‘Evidence-informed or Value-based? Exploring the Scrutiny of Legislation in the UK Parliament’, in the Journal of Legislative Studies, by Phil Begley, Catherine Bochel, Hugh Bochel, Andrew Defty, Jan...

Hugh Bochel participates in round table on SDG 16

Hugh Bochel participated in an academic round table, ‘Towards better data for Sustainable Development Goal 16: how to measure parliamentary effectiveness’, hosted by the Commonwealth Partnership for Democracy/Westminster...

ParliLinc submissions to House of Commons Liaison inquiry into select committees

A number of members of ParliLinc have each submitted evidence to the House of Commons Liaison Committee inquiry into the effectiveness and influence of the select committee system:...

Masters students visit Scottish Parliament

On 7 March 2019, Mark Bennister took two students from the MA module Comparative Legislatures to visit the Scottish Parliament. They were able to attend First Minister’s Questions,...