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Voter ID: most people are terrible at matching faces to photos, making polling checks unreliable

This article was originally published on The Conversation here: https://theconversation.com/voter-id-most-people-are-terrible-at-matching-faces-to-photos-making-polling-checks-unreliable-205168 This was originally published by Dr Katie Gray & Dr Kay Ritchie. On Thursday May 4, for the...

EVENT: ‘Japanese Prime Ministers and Party Leadership’ by Prof. Yu Uchiyama (University of Tokyo)

The School of Social and Political Sciences and ParliLinc are delighted to invite you to our faculty seminar: ‘Japanese Prime Ministers and Party Leadership’ by Prof. Yu Uchiyama...

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Does Legislature Size Impact Public Service Provision?

Since the early eighteenth century, scholars have suggested that there is a trade-off between political representation and government efficiency. On the one hand, larger legislatures offer greater opportunities...

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Is There a ‘Right’ Person to be Prime Minister?

At a time when two candidates are vying to be the next Conservative party leader and prime minister, it is perhaps rather appropriate to ask: Is there a...

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New Visiting Professor Joins the Lincoln Parliamentary Research Centre

Baroness Gillian Merron has been appointed a University of Lincoln Visiting Professor in Politics at the Lincoln Parliamentary Research Centre (ParliLinc); ParliLinc is based in the School of...

Mark Bennister’s evidence cited in Commons Report on the Role and Status of the Prime Minister’s Office

Evidence and research by Mark Bennister, Director of ParliLinc, has been cited in a report published by the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitution Affairs Committee (PACAC). The...

Committee witnesses in the Parliament of Canada

On 14 October Hugh Bochel presented a paper to the virtual conference of the Canadian Study of Parliament Group. The paper looked at witnesses to the committees of...

Recent publications by Steve McKay

Steve McKay and colleagues have an article in Politics and Gender that looks at the UK Parliament’s select committee system that presents the results of tests for the impact of...

New article on parliamentary committee witnesses

Hugh Bochel and Anouk Berthier have a new article that consider the witnesses that appear before parliamentary committees in their scrutiny of government actions and legislation. The work...

Mark Bennister provides CPD for teachers

On 11 June, Mark Bennister took part in a CPD seminar for teachers of A Level Politics and Advanced Higher Modern Studies. Dr Bennister gave an academic presentation...