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- Blog
- blog / 28.04.17
A guide to the Parliament of Ethiopia, by Meheret Ayenew and Tsedey Mekonnen
- blog / 07.10.19
- blog / 10.06.21
- blog / 24.11.16
"You can look, but don't touch!" Making the legislative process more accessible
- blog / 08.03.18
'A public phenomenon... impossible to explain': franchise reform in the long 18th century
- blog / 14.02.17
- blog / 13.07.16
'Can-Do' Rather Than 'Yah-Boo' - Will Theresa May Change the Practice of Politics?
- blog / 08.03.18
'From pioneers to parity?' - extract from a speech by Harriet Harman MP
- blog / 21.01.19
- blog / 07.01.20
2019 Mock Elections: Higher turnout and different outcome than the real general election
- blog / 05.09.17
A Parliamentary Scrutiny Solution For The EU (Withdrawal) Bill
- blog / 26.05.16
A guide to the Parliament of Bangladesh (the Jatiya Sangsad, or House of the Nation), by Nizam Ahmed
- blog / 05.04.16
- blog / 03.09.17
A summer without select committees - and why it must never happen again
- blog / 05.10.17
- blog / 25.11.14
- blog / 03.02.21
- blog / 18.04.16
Audit of Political Engagement 13 infographic posters - The Election Effect
- blog / 26.04.17
- blog / 21.01.22
Back to the future? House of Commons scrutiny of EU affairs after Lord Frost's exit
- blog / 22.01.21
- blog / 04.04.20
Brexit delegated legislation: the challenges, and how they should be addressed
- blog / 19.12.17
- blog / 24.02.22
- blog / 24.05.18
Bridging representative and direct democracy? Ireland's Citizens' Assemblies
- blog / 12.02.19
- blog / journal / 06.08.18
- blog / 09.07.21
Canadian conflict over contempt of Parliament and national security creates constitutional conundrum
- blog / 25.03.19
- blog / 18.03.19
- blog / 25.03.19
Changing EU ‘exit day’: how might the Statutory Instrument be expedited through Parliament?
- blog / 21.02.19
Commons' new trade agreement debate is a start, but far from ideal
- blog / 04.04.22
Constitution and Governance in the UK: Parliament and Legislation
- blog / 26.09.17
Constitutionalism and trust: A day of discussion on the EU (Withdrawal) Bill
- blog / 06.06.18
Contributing to the first full-scale review of Lords scrutiny committees in a quarter-century
- blog / 13.11.20
- blog / 31.03.16
- blog / 18.10.21
- blog / 02.11.18
Court injunctions and parliamentary privilege: is there a case for new restrictions?
- blog / 21.11.16
Culture, design and filter bubbles: looking back at #FutureParliament
- blog / 26.05.17
Deal or no deal? A parliamentary Brexit vote and the two-level game
- blog / 12.06.18
- blog / 18.12.18
- blog / 20.04.21
- blog / 18.08.20
- blog / 12.11.20
Did you get the memo? Post-legislative scrutiny and the case of judicial review
- blog / 21.05.15
- blog / journal / 12.05.15
- blog / 11.07.18
- blog / 27.04.21
- blog / 15.04.19
- blog / 04.02.19
First use of the Recall of MPs Act: a tough test in North Antrim
- blog / 17.04.18
Fitting a transition / implementation period into the process of legislating for Brexit
- blog / 04.07.19
- blog / 08.04.22
Genetically modified organisms: Primary or delegated legislation?
- blog / 19.02.17
- blog / 13.03.21
Groundhog Day for Restoration and Renewal after the Strategic Review: There is still no alternative
- blog / 10.06.20
How Jersey's legislature has risen to the Covid-19 challenge
- blog / 09.07.21
How Statutory Instruments are helping football (possibly) 'come home'
- blog / 10.10.18
How a Citizens' Assembly helped select committees find social care consensus
- blog / 08.04.20
- blog / 11.07.18
How important are competence and leadership in people's party choice?
- blog / 06.06.18
- blog / 27.08.20
- blog / 10.04.17
How research is contributing to Bangladesh's development improvements, by Zahir Ahmed
- blog / 02.09.21
How the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated parliamentary modernisation
- blog / 03.12.15
How the Strathclyde review could empower the government and not the House of Commons
- blog / 05.12.14
- blog / 03.12.21
In it for the long haul: HGV driver shortage Statutory Instruments show scrutiny system shortcomings
- blog / 09.07.20
Ireland's new Parliament: Political and physical change coincide amid Covid-19 crisis
- blog / 20.03.19
Irish Parliament completes legislative preparations for a no-deal Brexit
- blog / 20.07.16
- blog / 24.06.16
- blog / journal / 18.11.14
- blog / 09.11.21
Launching our Delegated Legislation Review: powers, procedures, politics and time
- blog / 04.08.21
- blog / 05.06.17
- blog / 26.10.15
Licence to kill? Should the House of Lords veto the Tax Credits Statutory Instrument?
- blog / 26.01.16
Lifting the Lid: The Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2015
- blog / 23.02.16
Lifting the Lid: The European Union Referendum (Date of Referendum etc.) Regulations 2016
- blog / 09.06.16
Lifting the Lid: The European Union Referendum (Voter Registration) Regulations 2016
- blog / 10.11.15
Lifting the Lid: The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2015
- blog / 01.12.15
Lifting the Lid: The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015
- blog / 14.01.22
Living on a prayer (motion): How do parliamentarians debate 'made negative' Statutory Instruments?
- blog / 19.02.21
Lord Frost appointment raises parliamentary scrutiny questions
- blog / 19.10.18
- blog / 03.04.15
Making Plans for Nigel (Dodds): the General Election and Northern Ireland
- blog / 03.08.18
- blog / 13.11.17
- blog / 11.10.17
Opening up the Usual Channels: next steps for reform of the House of Commons
- blog / 07.04.20
Palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal – a new era, or more of the same?
- blog / 04.09.19
- blog / 18.11.21
Parliament is under-scrutinising swathes of important law. But the problem can be fixed
- blog / 20.11.18
Parliamentary consent to treaty ratifications: another procedure strained by Brexit?
- blog / 26.04.17
Parliamentary democracy or referendums? Public attitudes to decision-making
- blog / 07.02.17
Parliaments around the world: what can architecture teach us about democracy?
- blog / 29.12.20
Parliament’s role in scrutinising the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement is a farce
- blog / 17.05.19
- blog / 13.02.21
- blog / 24.09.21
Placeholder clauses in the Nationality and Borders Bill: an impediment to effective scrutiny
- blog / 03.09.15
- blog / 05.02.21
Post-Brexit select committee changes highlight Lords–Commons differences
- blog / 02.07.19
Power of the Purse: what is the Estimates process and how does it work?
- blog / 11.10.15
Prime Minister's Questions: Public attitudes to 'People's PMQs'
- blog / 13.01.16
- blog / 07.05.20
Remote select committee evidence-taking is a Coronavirus change that should be kept
- blog / 11.05.18
Repairing the accountability chain between people and Parliament, by Robert Halfon MP
- blog / 21.03.16
Research as political scrutiny - Emma Crewe talks about our work in Ethiopia and Bangladesh
- blog / 04.12.20
Reviewing Restoration and Renewal and planning for a post-pandemic Parliament
- blog / 29.01.15
Rip it up and start again: parliamentary politics, destruction and renewal
- blog / 22.02.22
Russia-Ukraine crisis: how are sanctions Regulations made and how does Parliament scrutinise them?
- blog / 24.11.21
- blog / 15.01.18
Scrutiny of SIs: further amendments are needed to EU (Withdrawal) Bill
- blog / 07.10.19
Scrutiny of Statutory Instruments in the spotlight following Supreme Court judgement
- blog / journal / 08.11.19
Select Committee development and reform: turning points over 40 years
- blog / journal / 08.11.19
Select Committees 40 years on: wider still and wider may their bounds be set?
- blog / 10.12.18
- blog / 27.11.14
- blog / 30.03.17
Taking back control? Initial thoughts on the Great Repeal Bill White Paper
- blog / journal / 23.09.19
- blog / 24.06.19
The Brecon and Radnorshire recall petition process: personal reflections by Sir Paul Silk
- blog / 23.04.19
- blog / 23.04.19
The Brexit 'flextension': legislative provisions and Withdrawal Agreement ratification
- blog / 27.11.18
The DCMS Committee, Facebook and parliamentary powers and privilege
- blog / 09.12.14
The Delegated Legislation Journey: From Idea to Implementation
- blog / 16.04.16
The EU Referendum: Audit of Political Engagement 13 (infographic)
- blog / 18.07.17
- blog / 27.05.15
- blog / 13.09.21
The Health and Social Care Levy Bill: four questions about scrutiny and accountability
- blog / 08.10.21
- blog / 04.03.19
The Independent Group of MPs: will they have disproportionate influence in the House of Commons?
- blog / 08.06.17
- blog / 18.09.19
The Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Act 2019: What next?
- blog / 13.05.19
The Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill: two steps forward, one step back?
- blog / journal / 13.11.14
- blog / 21.06.17
The State Opening of Parliament: history, tradition and what to expect
- blog / 09.08.21
- blog / 04.02.22
The care placement Regulations and the courts: too many holes in the net of parliamentary scrutiny?
- blog / 12.12.17
The case for more politicians – electoral reform and the Welsh Assembly
- blog / journal / 01.07.19
The increased stature of select committees and their chairs: reflections by Harriet Harman MP
- blog / 12.06.20
The new review of Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster: five possible outcomes
- blog / 12.03.18
The problems of legislating piecemeal for Brexit: wider lessons of the Trade Bill
- blog / 09.01.18
Trade Bill highlights Parliament's weak international treaty role
- blog / 31.01.17
- blog / journal / 22.03.18
- blog / 07.05.20
Two days in the Commons Chamber that took Churchill to No.10: the Norway Debate of May 1940
- blog / 11.06.19
Waiting for who? House of Commons business before the summer recess
- blog / 25.06.19
- blog / 31.01.18
- blog / 31.01.19
Westminster Restoration and Renewal: a year on from the Commons vote to proceed
- blog / 25.01.19
What are Business of the House motions in the House of Commons and how do they work?
- blog / 28.04.20
What is the aim of parliamentary scrutiny of delegated legislation?
- blog / 15.03.22
What role does the UK Parliament play in sanctioning an individual? [Video]
- blog / 12.12.14
What to do with women in 2015: ‘Perhaps sit them in the corner’?
- blog / 16.12.14
- blog / 09.06.20
Where is the Intelligence and Security Committee and why does its absence matter?
- blog / 08.09.17
Who is in charge of the Palace of Westminster? Big Ben and parliamentary governance
- blog / 12.10.17
- blog / 04.09.15
Why Labour's 2015 campaign is a warning to a Jeremy Corbyn leadership
- blog / 20.07.20
- blog / 20.01.17
- blog / journal / 06.06.17
Why schools play such an important role in creating strong and stable democracies
- blog / 19.05.15
- blog / 04.12.20
- blog / 02.09.15
- blog / 07.08.18
- blog / 20.10.16
Will the Great Repeal Bill be another ‘Abolish Parliament’ bill?
- blog / 28.10.21
- blog / 28.04.17
- Events
- events / 29.11.17
Deepening democracy: reconciling parliaments and people through public engagement
- events / 14.11.16
Future Parliament: Hacking the Legislative Process // Capacity, Scrutiny, Engagement
- events
- events
- events / 18.07.16
- events / 20.03.18
- events / 14.04.16
- events / 26.04.17
Launch of the Audit of Political Engagement 14: the 2017 report
- events / 02.11.21
- events / 25.05.16
- events / 08.09.16
Making sense of May 7: the 2015 election and the future of British politics
- events / 11.10.17
Opening up the Usual Channels: next steps for reform of the House of Commons
- events / 19.01.22
Parliamentary Scrutiny, Evidence and the Rule of Law: Lessons from the pandemic and beyond
- events / 27.03.15
TTIP: beneficial to our economy or a threat to our democracy?
- events / 12.09.17
The EU (Withdrawal) Bill: Principles, Powers and Parliaments
- events / 29.11.17
- Journal
- journal
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- journal
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- journal
- journal
- journal
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Parliamentary Affairs: special issue on 'Disunity in Parliament' (vol 72, issue 2, 2019)
- journal
- journal
- journal
- News
- news / articles
A government defeat on May's Brexit deal tonight will be a historic failure of process
- news / articles
Even with a majority, getting Brexit done on deadline will be no mean feat
- news / articles
In the rush to prepare for Brexit, parliamentary scrutiny will suffer
- news
- news / articles
Select committees are crucial for holding ministers to account
- news / articles
The public think politics is broken, and are willing to entertain radical solutions
- news / articles
- Projects
- projects
- projects
- projects
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- Publications
- publications / reports / 2013
#FutureNews: The Communication of Parliamentary Democracy In a Digital World
- publications / 2020
- publications / briefings / 2017
- publications / reports / 2011
A Place for People: Proposals for Enhancing Visitor Engagement with Parliament's Environs
- publications / briefings / 2011
A Year in the Life: From Member of Public to Member of Parliament
- publications / briefings / 2013
Assembly Line? The Experiences and Development of New Welsh Assembly Members
- publications / briefings / 2013
At Home in the New House? A Study of Ireland’s First-Time TDs
- publications / reports / 2018
- publications / reports / 2019
- publications / briefings / 2017
Back to Business: Procedure at the start of a new Parliament
- publications / guides / 2019
Back to Business: procedure at the start of a new Parliament (special collection)
- publications / briefings / 2018
- publications / briefings / 2020
- publications / reports / 2022
Compendium of Legislative Standards for Delegating Powers in Primary Legislation
- publications / reports / 2011
- publications / data / 2020
- publications / 2021
- publications / 2021
- publications / guides / 2021
- publications / reports / 2021
- publications / 2021
Democratic control of political power matters: keynote address by Steve Baker MP
- publications / briefings / 2018
- publications / reports / 2011
Enhancing the Role of Backbench MPs: Proposals for Reform of Private Members’ Bills
- publications / submissions / 2018
Evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: 'Global Britain' inquiry
- publications / submissions / 2019
- publications / submissions / 2018
- publications / submissions / 2018
- publications / submissions / 2018
Evidence to the House of Lords Liaison Committee: Review of investigative and scrutiny committees
- publications / briefings / 2020
Expediting of the European Union (Future Relationship) Bill through Parliament: five issues
- publications / guides / 2021
- publications / guides / 2020
- publications / guides / 2021
- publications / briefings / 2020
- publications / guides / 2021
- publications / guides / 2021
- publications / submissions / 2020
- publications / reports / 2010
- publications / data / 2020
How long does it take for a new House of Commons to get fully up and running?
- publications / briefings / 2011
- publications / briefings / 2019
Indicative Votes: Options, voting methods and voting systems
- publications / reports / 2005
Inside the Counting House: a Discussion Paper on Parliamentary Scrutiny of Government Finance
- publications / guides / 2019
- publications / briefings / 2018
Legislating for transition / implementation: implications for the EU (Withdrawal) Bill
- publications / guides / 2019
- publications / reports / 2005
- publications / reports / 2013
Measured or Makeshift? Parliamentary Scrutiny of the European Union
- publications / reports / 2005
- publications / reports / 2008
No Overall Control? The impact of a 'hung parliament' on British politics
- publications / reports / 2002
- publications / guides / 2019
Parliament and Brexit after the 2019 General Election: a constitutional and procedural guide
- publications / guides / 2019
- publications / reports / 2006
- publications / reports / 2005
Parliament, Politics and Law Making: Issues and Developments in the Legislative Process
- publications / 2020
- publications / reports / 2011
Parliaments and Public Engagement: Innovation and Good Practice from Around the World
- publications / guides / 2019
- publications / submissions / 2020
- publications / 2020
- publications / guides / 2019
- publications / briefings / 2009
Representative Democracy Briefing Paper 1: House of Commons Reform
- publications / briefings / 2021
Restoration and Renewal: why MPs should stick with decant and focus on the long-term legacy
- publications / guides / 2019
- publications / reports / 2021
Statutory Instruments in the Spotlight: what difference do they make and why do they matter?
- publications / reports / 2017
- publications / 2005
- publications / reports / 2001
- publications / reports / 2014
The Devil is in the Detail: Parliament and Delegated Legislation
- publications / briefings / 2022
- publications / reports / 2006
- publications / 2021
The Hansard Society Delegated Legislation Review: An introduction
- publications / briefings / 2021
- publications / briefings / 2021
- publications / reports / 2010
The Reform Challenge Perspectives on Parliament: Past, Present and Future
- publications / reports / 1990
The Report of The Hansard Society Commission on Women at the Top
- publications / reports / 2009
- publications / briefings / 2021
- publications / briefings / 2019
- publications / guides / 2020
- publications / reports / 2000
- publications / reports / 2017
Westminster Lens: Parliament and Delegated Legislation in the 2015-16 Session
- publications / reports / 1997
- publications / briefings / 2021
- publications / briefings / 2012
- publications / briefings / 2020
- publications / reports / 2010
What's Trust Got To Do With It? Public Trust in and Expectations of Politicians and Parliament
- publications / briefings / 2020
- publications / reports / 2012
- publications / submissions / 2022
Written evidence to the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee: Retained EU Law: Where next?
- publications / submissions / 2022
- publications / 1968
- publications / briefings / 2019
- publications / reports / 2013
- Services
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