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 · 18 May 2020 English

The change in political circumstances between the end of 2019 and today is stark, both within the Palace of Westminster and in the context of the coronavirus pandemic that has …


NIPoRe: Nepal Institute for Policy Research · 9 July 2023 English

The data show a substantial decrease in the number of female candidates in the 2022 local-level elections in comparison to the 2017 elections. [...] We have calculated whether any palika …


EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 3 March 2023 English

One hundred years after women won the vote or were first elected to parliament in some EU countries, the data show that women continue to be under-represented in politics 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, …