PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED AT

THE 16th WORKSHOP OF PARLIAMENTARY SCHOLARS AND PARLIAMENTARIANS

 

Wroxton College, Oxfordshire, UK

27-28 July 2024

 

 

Strategic integration of Artificial Intelligence in parliamentary processes

Fotios Fitsilis, Hellenic Parliament, Jörn von Lucke, Zeppelin University, and George Mikros, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Qatar

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Parliaments: Current applications, future prospects, and implementation strategies

Marci Harris, Executive Director, POPVOX Foundation; University of San Francisco; San Jose State University

 

Visual Parliaments: a framework for mapping parliaments as ‘videospheres’

Mouli Banerjee, University of Warwick

 

Climate change discourse in a digital era: A case study of the European Parliament’s self-legitimation practices on Twitter

Monika Brusenbauch, Masaryk University

 

The digital transformation in Oman parliamentary assemblies: a case study of the ‘Entakheb’ application

Maimouna Alrusheidi and Aisha Alasmi, Sultanate of Oman

 

Approaching the integration of large language models in the parliamentary workplace

Jörn von Lucke, Zeppelin University

 

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the conduct of parliamentary business in Ghana

Anning Kuffour Nimako, Parliament of Ghana

 

Pressure testing under Covid: the constitutional consequences in the UK and Italy compared

Ylenia Maria Citino, Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna, Pisa, and Peter Leyland, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

 

Does access to classified information impede scrutiny of intelligence agencies?  Learning from the case study of the Finnish Parliament

Tapio Raunio, Tampere University

 

Flawed democracies, populist leadership, and legislative performance in Latin America: a comparative study of Argentina, Colombia and Mexico

Khemvirg Puente, UNAM-Mexico

 

Private Members’ Bills in Westminster and beyond

Ruth Dixon, University of Oxford, and Anne-Marie Griffiths, Public Bill Office, UK House of Commons

 

Building Legislative Capacity: Pre-legislative scrutiny in the UK Parliament

Tom Caygill, Nottingham Trent University

 

Patchwork or masterpiece?  Amendment packages as legislative tools in comparative perspective

Zsolt Szabó, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church

 

Rhetoric and reality: parliamentary opposition parties and populism in the South African Parliament

Samuel Uwem, University of Hradec Králové University

 

Keeping the House in order – the effectiveness of parliamentary administration governance models

Andréa Cullen, Integrity Partners, Canberra

 

Clerk and staff of the legislative houses under the Nigerian 1999 Constitution: Complexities, challenges and remedial strategies

Emmanuel Obusom Anyaegbunam, African Center for Parliamentary and Constitutional Studies

 

Nonpartisan parliamentary staff navigating through a partisan Parliament in Ghana

Ernest Darfour, Parliament of Ghana, Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini, University of Ghana, and Joseph Antwi-Boasiako, University of Hamilton, Canada

 

Should Members of Parliament still act as employers?  A comparative insight into the staffing issue

Mohesh Balnath, University of Grenoble Alpes

 

The morale of trainers in parliamentary training institutions: a case study of selected institutions in Africa

Buchere Philip Brightone, Abdul Majid Ali Ahmed, Rasheed Draman, Centre for Parliamentary Studies and Training (CPST), Kenya, and Hon. Rachel Ameso, Commissioner, Parliamentary Services Commission, Kenya

 

Offsetting incongruence through constituency mentions. Legislative behaviour and the electoral connection?

Zac Dickson, London School of Economics, Sebastian Ludwig-Ziegler, University of Stirling, Mark Shephard, University of Strathclyde, Tevfik Murat Yildrim, University of Stavanger

 

Loyalty, productivity and service: legislative candidate selection in Ghana

Martin Acheampong, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg

 

Does Members’ legislative effectiveness matter for re-election?

Omomayowa Olawale Abati, Stellenbosch University

 

From Throne Speech to Presidential Address: The parliamentary effect of conversion from a monarchy to a republic in Trinidad and Tobago

Hamid Ghany, University of the West Indies

 

A rightful place – the representation and participation of First Nation Peoples in the political process

Andréa Cullen, Integrity Partners, Canberra ACT and Charles Darwin University, and Richard Egan, independent scholar, Australia

 

The British Origins of agenda control in Israel

Tal Elovits, University of Milan

 

Ethics infrastructure: regulating parliamentary conduct in Italy

Piero Gambale, University of Luiss-Rome

 

A hung parliament and its implications for the executive-legislative interface in Ghana

Ernest Darfour, Parliament of Ghana

 

Interpreting parliamentary diplomacy in EU27-UK relations

Cherry Miller, University of Helsinki

 

Playing to issue strengths or playing to the crowd? Conservative versus SNP MPs and MSP interactions in Parliament over Scottish independence

Mark Shephard, University of Strathclyde

 

Multidisciplinary approaches to researching legislatures at a time of turmoil

Can we be friends? The Texas House of Representatives as a critical case study of cross-party collaboration in a context of polarization

Emma Crewe, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and Michelle M. Taylor Robinson, Texas A&M University

 

Multidisciplinary approaches to researching legislatures at a time of turmoil

Ethnographic perspectives on political minorities inside the Brazilian Parliament

Cristiane Bernardes, Legislative School, Brazilian Chamber of Deputies

 

Multidisciplinary approaches to researching legislatures at a time of turmoil

A Lone Star and the City on the Hill: exception, process, and symbolism in U.S. state politics

Emma Crewe, SOAS, and Daniel Souleles, Copenhagen Business School

 

Parliamentary Diplomacy and Diaspora Diplomacy: the case of Afghanistan and its humanitarian crisis.

Juan de Dios Cincunegui, Universidad Austral

 

Scope and limits of Parliamentary Diplomacy: complementation, confrontation and limitations of the external action of parliaments and parliamentarians in matters of Foreign Policy.

Juan de Dios Cincunegui, Universidad Austral