Parliamentary Studies: Party Loyalty and Institutional Culture

User icon Heather Dray
15 May 2024
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This list has been prepared to support students enrolled in the Parliamentary Studies Module offered through 23 approved universities. Parliamentary Studies is a higher education module which is co-taught by university tutors and officials from the Houses of Parliament. It is the only higher education module formally approved by the Houses of Parliament. The module provides students with a detailed knowledge of how Parliament works in both theory and practice. It is delivered through a collaboration between the Houses of Parliament and a UK higher education institution; the institution provides academic and theoretical content, and Parliament provides practical teaching about the work, processes and business of Parliament.


IfG: Institute for Government · 8 September 2021 English

In the face of backbench anger and attempts to use legislation to overturn the cuts – and after condemnation from the Speaker – the government instead allowed a vote on …


IFS: Institute for Fiscal Studies · 29 November 2022 English

Regarding constituency characteristics, we mainly rely on the UK Decennial Censuses: tracing the changes in constituencies over time and using the mapping tables provided in the censuses, we build constituency-level …


MEI: The Mile End Institute · 20 December 2017 English

With the obvious exception of SNP members, they’re more likely, too, to live in London and the south of the country rather than in the north or the Midlands and …


EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 4 September 2023 English

Gender-balanced representation among the decision-makers of the European Union is an important step towards full realisation of the principle of equality between women and men enshrined in the EU Treaties. …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 18 December 2023 English

Fears of populist politics gaining ground and undermining the rule of law in the UK have been increasingly voiced in recent years. Alison Young looks at recent constitutional changes to …


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The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for Crown Dependencies and British …


The House of Lords, formally The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, is the upper house …


Parliamentary procedure is the body of ethics, rules, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies, and other deliberative assemblies. In the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, …