The Dining Hall

Dr Nicholas D. J. Baldwin – Dean, Wroxton College 

Professor The Lord Norton of Louth – Director, Centre for Legislative Studies, University of Hull 

Chair: Meg Russell, University College London

Parliaments: orphan institutions of democratic development

Jonathan Murphy, International Democracy and Governance Consultancy

Recommended benchmarks for democratic legislatures

Anthony Staddon, Parliamentary Consultant for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association  (Benchmarks)

Parliaments in the global governance system

Juan de Dios Cincunegui, Chamber of Deputies, National Congress of Argentina

Chair: Greg Power, Global Partners Governance

Parliaments and Ministers: the impact of ministerial codes of conduct

Mark Shephard, University of Strathclyde

The challenges for ministerial responsibility posed by parliamentary requirements for special majority legislation: the effect of the Canadian Bill of Rights model for human rights in Trinidad and Tobago

Hamid Ghany, The University of the West Indies

Questions to the PM versus Questions by the PM: An Examination of the State and Nature of ‘Punch and Judy’ Politics during PMQs at Westminster

Mark Shephard and Daniel Braby,University of Strathclyde

The Buttery

Chair: John E. Owens, Westminster University

The post-legislative scrutiny gap

Tom Caygill, University of Newcastle

Post-legislative scrutiny: connecting Parliament with the Public

Sue Griffiths, Global Partners Governance (GPG) and Baroness Suttie, House of Lords

Chair: Tapio Raunio, Tampere University

Selective responsiveness: information transmission in China’s local legislatures

Wenbo Chen, Beihang University, Beijing

Public budget engagement of the Chinese legislature under responsive authoritarianism: motives and strategies

Yishuai Wang, East China Normal University/University of Leeds

The Dining Hall

Chair: Jonas Cekuolis, National Democratic Institute, Jordan

The role of parliaments in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): a study of multi-parliamentary cooperation and Southeast Asian parliaments

Ratih Adiputri, University ofJyväskylä

Working in Conflict/Post-Conflict Environments:  An Exploratory Comparative Analysis of How Context Shapes Programming

David E. Guinn, SUNY Center for International Development,and Jeffery D. Straussman, University at Albany

Advancing the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) through Malaysia Parliamentary Re

Muhamad Sayuti bin Hassan @ Yahya, Sultan Idris Education University and Idzuafi Hadi Kamilan, Parliament of Malaysia

Chair: Mark Shephard, University of Strathclyde

More assertive than ever before?  The role(s) and power (s) of the European Parliament in the UK’s withdrawal negotiations

Monika Brusenbauch Meislová, Masaryk University Brno

Challenging Arend Lijphart’s Hybrid VI: The case of Guyana

Hamid Ghany, The University of the West Indies

Rethinking the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament: The Republic’s Legislative Development Imperative

Maukesh Basdeo, The University of the West Indies

The Buttery

Chair: Juan de Dios Cincunegui, Chamber of Deputies, Argentina

Parliamentary control over delegated legislation in Japan

Katsuhiro Musashi, Doshisha University

Parliamentary oversight of sustainable development goals and the application of post-legislative scrutiny principles

Fotis Fitsilis, Hellenic Parliament, and Franklin De Vrieze, Westminster Foundation for Democracy

Chair: Hamid Ghany, University of the West Indies

The MP-constituency link in the UK: changing roles

Lord Norton of Louth, University of Hull

Going Local: How the electoral incentive shapes political behaviour in developing democracies

Greg Power, Global Partners Governance (GPG)

[Assemble in the Great Hall]

A guided tour of Wroxton Abbey by Lord Norton

The Buttery

In the Dining Hall, with entertainment provided by Julia Martin

In the Dining Hall

Chair: Ingvar Mattson, Parliament of Sweden

Restoration, renewal, rebuilding and construction of Parliament buildings: a case study analysis of the impact of these architectural options on parliamentary democracy

Andrea Cullen, ACT Legislative Assembly, Canberra

‘Let’s have a chat’: the significance of informal space in parliaments

Lord Norton of Louth, University of Hull/House of Lords

Chair: Sue Griffiths, Global Partners Governance

Encouraging a longer time horizon: The Committee for the Future in the Finnish Eduskunta

Vesa Koskimaa, Åbo Akademi University, and Tapio Raunio, Tampere University

How MPs scrutinise science and technology: developments in the House of Commons during the 20^thcentury

Emmeline Ledgerwood, University of Leicester/British Library

In the Buttery

Chair: Gareth McGrath, Northern Ireland Assembly

The paradox of openness, accountability and trust in legislatures

Meg Russell, University College London

Tocquevillian restraint or Millian profiteering? Parliamentary remuneration in long-term comparative perspective

Nicholas Dickinson, University of Exeter

Chair: Franklin De Vrieze, Westminster Foundation for Democracy

Legislators’ pathway to power: intra-party competition, clientelism and unresponsive representatives in Ghana

Martin Acheampong, University of Bamberg

In the Dining Hall

On the steps of Wroxton Abbey

Chair: Meg Munn, Independent Consultant and former UK Minister for Women and Foreign SOffice Minister

Plenary discussion based on the IPU reports, Sexism, harrassment and violence against women parliamentarians, andSexism, harrassment and violence against women in parliaments in Europe

Refreshments will be served in the Buttery