Cristina Leston-Bandeira
Biographic Data
| ID | 2434403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Leston-Bandeira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Leston-Bandeira |
| SIGNATURE | LESTON-BANDEIRA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6131-4607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 349 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Invisible Architects of Public Engagement: Understanding the Different Types of Roles Played by Parliamentary Staff
Although public engagement has become a cornerstone of modern parliamentary functions, the role of parliamentary staff in shaping it remains largely neglected and understudied. Whilst the literature acknowledges that staff have been key in the development of public engagement in legislatures, we do not know in what ways. This oversight neglects a crucial aspect: the administration of parliament is not just a backdrop but the very foundation of a …
Women's campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945-1997
Petitioning provided a flexible repertoire for women’s political activity in the decades after 1945. Petitioning was a popular, widespread practice: aside from voting, signing a petition was one of the few political activities that engaged a majority of women. Building on a long tradition of British women as active petitioners, petitioning was used by a variety of different groups—local action groups, voluntary associations, political parties, pr…
The development of public engagement as a core institutional role for parliaments
Public engagement has become a noticeable activity for parliaments across the world. However, we lack understanding of its role despite considerable developments in scholarly work on public engagement in the sciences and on deliberative and participatory democracy by social scientists. This article provides a framework to understand the significance of parliamentary public engagement and to evaluate its effectiveness. It explains how parliamentar…
Parliamentary storytelling: A New Concept in Public Engagement With Parliaments
This article focuses on the UK Parliament’s recent efforts to engage citizens: specifically, the use of storytelling techniques to represent Parliament as a relevant and relatable institution. The use of these techniques is very recent within parliamentary engagement which, in its own right, is a relatively new addition to Parliament’s functions and activities. Building on theories of parliamentary engagement, representation, and narratology, we …
Why it matters to keep asking why legislatures matter
Legislative scholars are very good at explaining and analysing what legislatures do and how they do it. But the why question – why legislatures do what they do and why they matter – is often taken for granted or not raised at all. Our objective in this paper is to focus attention back onto the ‘why’ question and to explore the grounds upon which legislative scholars, and others, might be encouraged to reconsider this basic question. In seeking to…
Tacticians, Stewards, and Professionals: The Politics of Publishing Select Committee Legal Advice
At Westminster, there are increasing pressures on select committees to publish in‐house legal advice. We suggest that examining the process of deciding to publish provides useful insights into the provision, reception, and use of legal advice, and the dynamics of select committees generally. We argue that the autonomy of select committees to decide what use they make of evidence and advice they receive is, in practice, constrained by the intra‐in…
Parliamentary petitions and public engagement: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of E-Petitions
Legislatures around the world are experimenting with online petitions as a means of enabling the public to express policy preferences. In some countries they have attracted an extraordinarily large number of signatories, but it is often unclear what, if anything, they achieve. This article addresses this important question through an analysis of the UK parliament’s e-petitions system. Drawing on a review of historical and comparative research, it…
How Public Engagement Became a Core Part of the House of Commons Select Committees
This article explores the role of public engagement by select committees of the House of Commons. It shows that committees’ public engagement activity has been transformed since 1979, when departmental select committees were introduced. We start by outlining the different elements of public engagement, showing that it entails a wide range of types of activity from information about committees’ activity to opportunities through which citizens can …
The Institutional Representation of Parliament
Recent theoretical re-conceptualisations of political representation and contemporary empirical analyses of parliamentary representation have largely neglected the representation of parliaments as institutions. As a consequence, relatively little attention has been focused upon what is being communicated to citizens about parliaments and upon the nature of the parliamentary institutions that citizens are expected to engage with. This is the negle…
Election proximity and representation focus in party-constrained environments
Do elected representatives have a time-constant representation focus or do they adapt their focus depending on election proximity? In this article, we examine these overlooked theoretical and empirical puzzles by looking at how reelection-seeking actors adapt their legislative behavior according to the electoral cycle. In parliamentary democracies, representatives need to serve two competing principals: their party and their district. Our analysi…
Introduction: The Mislaying of a Majority
The 2017 General Election added considerably to the rich political drama evident in the UK in recent years. A contest supposed to be one of the most one-sided of all time confounded most predictions in yielding only the third hung parliament of the 20 post-war general elections in the UK. ‘May heads for election landslide’ trumpeted The Times on 19 April, the day after the election was called—and few demurred. Theresa May began her campaign in Bo…
Conclusion: An Election that Satisfied Few and Solved Little
Rarely can a partial election victory have felt so akin to a defeat for a party. As the Conservatives scrambled in the aftermath to clinch an expensive deal with their only friends at Westminster, the Democratic Unionist Party, they ruefully reflected on how their majority had been mislaid. A Prime Minister who had called an unnecessary election had witnessed her Party’s apparently unassailable position at the outset of the contest eroded. The Co…
Integrating the view of the public into the formal legislative process: Public reading stage in the UK House of Commons
Recent years have seen increasing calls to integrate the public's voice into the parliamentary process. This article examines the impact of public reading stage (PRS) on the UK Parliament's scrutiny of a bill. A new stage of the legislative process piloted by the House of Commons in February 2013, PRS invited the public to comment on a bill undergoing parliamentary scrutiny (the Children and Families Bill). The PRS was designed to encourage membe…
Why symbolic representation frames parliamentary public engagement
Research Highlights and Abstract The UK Parliament’s activity in public engagement has recently expanded considerably. Faced with declining levels of trust, it has invested considerable time and resources to new activities focusing specifically on engagement: educational resources and cultural events among many others. This embodies a new role for parliament of increasing importance particularly in the context of the 21st-century parliament. But …
Conclusion
This special issue has discussed the wider representative role of the Brazilian Parliament’s lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies, through an analysis that has integrated the way it processes policy with how it communicates with citizens. Adopting as an overarching framework, Polsby’s typology on Arena vs. Transformative legislatures, the articles have discussed the institutionalisation process of the Chamber of Deputies, its role within the po…
Information vs Engagement in parliamentary websites - a case study of Brazil and the UK
Parliamentary websites have become the main window of parliament to the outside world. More than a gimmick, they are an essential element in the promotion of a relationship between parliament and citizens. This paper develops a comparative analysis of the websites of the lower chambers of the Brazilian and the British parliaments, respectively the Chamber of Deputies and the House of Commons. We structure this analysis around three dimensions: 1)…
E-Parliament and ICT-Based Legislation: Concept, Experiences and Lessons
E-Parliament and ICT-Based Legislation is an interesting book to have on your shelves. It is packed with information, particularly on case studies one hardly ever hears about. This is a book that w
The Pursuit of Legitimacy as a Key Driver for Public Engagement: The European Parliament Case
Political disengagement and declining trust have become main areas of concern for parliaments in Europe, leading to a considerable reinforcement of public engagement activities. The European Parliament is a prime example of an institution where the need to strengthen the link with citizens became a key priority, in particular following the Lisbon Treaty's reinforcement of the parliament's powers and visibility. This article analyses the decision-…
The Effectiveness of Incentive-Driven Role-Play
This article introduces an innovative approach to the role-play teaching technique: one driven by the presence of substance incentives. We analyse the effectiveness of this incentive-driven role-play approach in the engagement of students with International Relations and Security Studies seminars. We assess its usefulness on multiple fronts. We propose that incentive-driven role-play is an effective method of teaching that caters for students’ di…
Mind the Gap: Using UK Parliamentary Sources to Enhance Teaching
Online primary parliamentary sources can be of great value in teaching Parliamentrelated courses and a valuable means of promoting the development of students? research and analytical skills; particularly taking into account the research habits of the modern student population. Through a series of focus groups with politics students and a national survey of politics lecturers, the perceptions and current use of the UK Parliament website in teachi…
Portugal in the Twenty-First Century: Politics, Society, and Economics
Methods Teaching through a Discipline Research-Oriented Approach
In a context of intense debate around the need to promote stronger research skills in politics graduates, this article explores an approach to teaching research methods which focuses on the discipline, student and research process. Through a case study, we show that adopting a discipline-embedded research-oriented approach ensures student engagement with methods teaching. Following the principle that students should experience primary research fr…
How deeply are parliaments engaging on social media
Towards a Trustee Model? Parliamentary Representation in the Internet Era: The Portuguese Case
This article considers whether new media have shifted the focus and style of parliamentary representation in Portugal. The Portuguese case is an interesting one to look at because it has been characterised by a strong responsible party model and very distant MP-Citizens relationships. The system is characterised by a heavily party-based parliament where individual MPs have little say and constituencies little meaning. Drawing on interviews with M…
Studying the Relationship between Parliament and Citizens
The relationship between parliament and citizens has been neglected traditionally by the legislative studies scholarship. And yet this is the area that has seen the most phenomenal developments within the last few decades. As a reaction against increasing levels of political disengagement, and utilising modern tools of communication such as new media, parliaments have in fact considerably developed the possibility of linkages with the public. And…
Why symbolic representation frames parliamentary public engagement
Research Highlights and Abstract The UK Parliament’s activity in public engagement has recently expanded considerably. Faced with declining levels of trust, it has invested considerable time and resources to new activities focusing specifically on engagement: educational resources and cultural events among many others. This embodies a new role for parliament of increasing importance particularly in the context of the 21st-century parliament. But …
The Pursuit of Legitimacy as a Key Driver for Public Engagement: The European Parliament Case
Political disengagement and declining trust have become main areas of concern for parliaments in Europe, leading to a considerable reinforcement of public engagement activities. The European Parliament is a prime example of an institution where the need to strengthen the link with citizens became a key priority, in particular following the Lisbon Treaty's reinforcement of the parliament's powers and visibility. This article analyses the decision-…
Studying the Relationship between Parliament and Citizens
The relationship between parliament and citizens has been neglected traditionally by the legislative studies scholarship. And yet this is the area that has seen the most phenomenal developments within the last few decades. As a reaction against increasing levels of political disengagement, and utilising modern tools of communication such as new media, parliaments have in fact considerably developed the possibility of linkages with the public. And…
Election proximity and representation focus in party-constrained environments
Do elected representatives have a time-constant representation focus or do they adapt their focus depending on election proximity? In this article, we examine these overlooked theoretical and empirical puzzles by looking at how reelection-seeking actors adapt their legislative behavior according to the electoral cycle. In parliamentary democracies, representatives need to serve two competing principals: their party and their district. Our analysi…
The Impact of the Internet on Parliaments: A Legislative Studies Framework
Journal Article The Impact of the Internet on Parliaments: a Legislative Studies Framework Get access Cristina Leston-Bandeira Cristina Leston-Bandeira * *Cristina Leston-Bandeira is with the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK (e.mail: [email protected]) Previous versions of this article were presented at the International Political Science Association 20th World Congress, Japan, Ju…
Parliaments' Endless Pursuit of Trust: Re-focusing on Symbolic Representation
This conclusion reviews the styles of relationship between parliament and citizens visible in very different political systems across the world. It shows that increasingly this relationship follows different styles according to specific contexts and beyond the traditional perception of a specific type of representation. It then demonstrates that parliaments have finally become public institutions with the new millennium, opening up considerably b…
How deeply are parliaments engaging on social media
Dissent in a Party-Based Parliament: The Portuguese Case
With a focus on the Portuguese case, this article shows how MPs express disagreement with their parties in a highly cohesive and party-dominated parliament. We review the features that explain why the Portuguese institutional framework reinforces party control over the parliamentary mandate and discuss the different ways Portuguese MPs express party dissent. In the last section of the article, we analyse data on voting for a period of just over 3…
Parliamentary petitions and public engagement: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of E-Petitions
Legislatures around the world are experimenting with online petitions as a means of enabling the public to express policy preferences. In some countries they have attracted an extraordinarily large number of signatories, but it is often unclear what, if anything, they achieve. This article addresses this important question through an analysis of the UK parliament’s e-petitions system. Drawing on a review of historical and comparative research, it…
How Are Parliaments Using New Media to Engage with Citizens
ICT-based methods of communication, and especially new forms of social media, offer parliaments the opportunity to communicate with citizens and engage them in the political process more effectively. This is important in a context of declining levels of trust in parliaments where new media is often identified as a tool to address poor engagement with politics. However, the use of ICT poses significant challenges to parliaments, many of which do n…
The Institutional Representation of Parliament
Recent theoretical re-conceptualisations of political representation and contemporary empirical analyses of parliamentary representation have largely neglected the representation of parliaments as institutions. As a consequence, relatively little attention has been focused upon what is being communicated to citizens about parliaments and upon the nature of the parliamentary institutions that citizens are expected to engage with. This is the negle…
Methods Teaching through a Discipline Research-Oriented Approach
In a context of intense debate around the need to promote stronger research skills in politics graduates, this article explores an approach to teaching research methods which focuses on the discipline, student and research process. Through a case study, we show that adopting a discipline-embedded research-oriented approach ensures student engagement with methods teaching. Following the principle that students should experience primary research fr…
Towards a Trustee Model? Parliamentary Representation in the Internet Era: The Portuguese Case
This article considers whether new media have shifted the focus and style of parliamentary representation in Portugal. The Portuguese case is an interesting one to look at because it has been characterised by a strong responsible party model and very distant MP-Citizens relationships. The system is characterised by a heavily party-based parliament where individual MPs have little say and constituencies little meaning. Drawing on interviews with M…
How Public Engagement Became a Core Part of the House of Commons Select Committees
This article explores the role of public engagement by select committees of the House of Commons. It shows that committees’ public engagement activity has been transformed since 1979, when departmental select committees were introduced. We start by outlining the different elements of public engagement, showing that it entails a wide range of types of activity from information about committees’ activity to opportunities through which citizens can …
Integrating the view of the public into the formal legislative process: Public reading stage in the UK House of Commons
Recent years have seen increasing calls to integrate the public's voice into the parliamentary process. This article examines the impact of public reading stage (PRS) on the UK Parliament's scrutiny of a bill. A new stage of the legislative process piloted by the House of Commons in February 2013, PRS invited the public to comment on a bill undergoing parliamentary scrutiny (the Children and Families Bill). The PRS was designed to encourage membe…
The development of public engagement as a core institutional role for parliaments
Public engagement has become a noticeable activity for parliaments across the world. However, we lack understanding of its role despite considerable developments in scholarly work on public engagement in the sciences and on deliberative and participatory democracy by social scientists. This article provides a framework to understand the significance of parliamentary public engagement and to evaluate its effectiveness. It explains how parliamentar…
Are ICTs Changing Parliamentary Activity in the Portuguese Parliament
This article looks at the extent to which the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has brought changes to parliamentary activity in the Portuguese parliament. It explains the process through which ICTs have been introduced in this parliament, as well as looking at MPs' perceptions of ICT. It assesses the impact of ICTs on two key areas of parliamentary activity: the relationship between parliament and citizens and int…
Internalising the lessons of stable democracy: The Portuguese parliament
The Portuguese Parliament has changed enormously since it was first introduced in the mid-1970s. Most of these changes took place in the aftermath of the experience of the absolute majorities period, in the second decade of democracy. After the time when representation and legitimacy were paramount principles came a time where effectiveness became the key issue in the practice of democracy. Drawing from different sources of research, this article…
Parliamentary storytelling: A New Concept in Public Engagement With Parliaments
This article focuses on the UK Parliament’s recent efforts to engage citizens: specifically, the use of storytelling techniques to represent Parliament as a relevant and relatable institution. The use of these techniques is very recent within parliamentary engagement which, in its own right, is a relatively new addition to Parliament’s functions and activities. Building on theories of parliamentary engagement, representation, and narratology, we …
Portugal in the Twenty-First Century: Politics, Society, and Economics
Why it matters to keep asking why legislatures matter
Legislative scholars are very good at explaining and analysing what legislatures do and how they do it. But the why question – why legislatures do what they do and why they matter – is often taken for granted or not raised at all. Our objective in this paper is to focus attention back onto the ‘why’ question and to explore the grounds upon which legislative scholars, and others, might be encouraged to reconsider this basic question. In seeking to…
The Portuguese parliament during the first two decades of democracy
This article sets out the main stages in the development of the Portuguese parliament over the past two decades. This development has been characterised by the growing rationalisation of the internal operation of parliament, notably through an increased role for committees, and the greater importance attached to parliamentary scrutiny of the executive. Recently, the Portuguese parliament has taken important steps in strengthening its links with s…
The role of the Portuguese parliament based on a case study: The discussion of the budget, 1983–95
Barely studied, the Portuguese parliament is a young institution which has undergone numerous and deep changes in its first 20 years of democratic existence. This article looks into those changes during a fundamental period of Portuguese political life: from 1983 to 1995, after the so‐called transition to democracy, in the years that Portugal became a member of the European Union and in the period that saw the occurrence (and repetition) of an ab…
Representation in Westminster in the 1990s: The ghost of Edmund burke
Why are 'trustee' notions of representation still invoked in the UK House of Commons in the 1990s? In answering this question this article analyses the premises of Burkean theory and the arguments that these premises are of little relevance in the late twentieth century. Despite these dismissals of trusteeship, Burkean ideas are still articulated in the Commons some 200 years after they were first voiced. The idea of trusteeship can prove extreme…
Information vs Engagement in parliamentary websites - a case study of Brazil and the UK
Parliamentary websites have become the main window of parliament to the outside world. More than a gimmick, they are an essential element in the promotion of a relationship between parliament and citizens. This paper develops a comparative analysis of the websites of the lower chambers of the Brazilian and the British parliaments, respectively the Chamber of Deputies and the House of Commons. We structure this analysis around three dimensions: 1)…
Studying Parliaments in Southern Europe
The role of the Portuguese parliament based on a case study: The discussion of the budget, 1983–95
Barely studied, the Portuguese parliament is a young institution which has undergone numerous and deep changes in its first 20 years of democratic existence. This article looks into those changes during a fundamental period of Portuguese political life: from 1983 to 1995, after the so‐called transition to democracy, in the years that Portugal became a member of the European Union and in the period that saw the occurrence (and repetition) of an ab…
Representation in Westminster in the 1990s: The ghost of Edmund burke
Why are 'trustee' notions of representation still invoked in the UK House of Commons in the 1990s? In answering this question this article analyses the premises of Burkean theory and the arguments that these premises are of little relevance in the late twentieth century. Despite these dismissals of trusteeship, Burkean ideas are still articulated in the Commons some 200 years after they were first voiced. The idea of trusteeship can prove extreme…
The Portuguese parliament during the first two decades of democracy
This article sets out the main stages in the development of the Portuguese parliament over the past two decades. This development has been characterised by the growing rationalisation of the internal operation of parliament, notably through an increased role for committees, and the greater importance attached to parliamentary scrutiny of the executive. Recently, the Portuguese parliament has taken important steps in strengthening its links with s…
The Portuguese Parliament and Public Opinion: A Case for Reform
During the past decade, the Portuguese political system has been under close scrutiny. As in other Western democracies, the topic of citizens' dissatisfaction with democratic institutions has been at the centre of a wide debate amongst public opinion and politicians. This debate has focused on parliament and parliamentary reform has often been seen as a way of enhancing parliament's image. However, as this note will show, there is no clear eviden…
Southern European parliaments in democracy
The impact of democratic practice on the parliaments of Southern Europe
Internalising the lessons of stable democracy: The Portuguese parliament
The Portuguese Parliament has changed enormously since it was first introduced in the mid-1970s. Most of these changes took place in the aftermath of the experience of the absolute majorities period, in the second decade of democracy. After the time when representation and legitimacy were paramount principles came a time where effectiveness became the key issue in the practice of democracy. Drawing from different sources of research, this article…
The Impact of the Internet on Parliaments: A Legislative Studies Framework
Journal Article The Impact of the Internet on Parliaments: a Legislative Studies Framework Get access Cristina Leston-Bandeira Cristina Leston-Bandeira * *Cristina Leston-Bandeira is with the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK (e.mail: [email protected]) Previous versions of this article were presented at the International Political Science Association 20th World Congress, Japan, Ju…
Are ICTs Changing Parliamentary Activity in the Portuguese Parliament
This article looks at the extent to which the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has brought changes to parliamentary activity in the Portuguese parliament. It explains the process through which ICTs have been introduced in this parliament, as well as looking at MPs' perceptions of ICT. It assesses the impact of ICTs on two key areas of parliamentary activity: the relationship between parliament and citizens and int…
Parliamentary functions portrayed on European parliaments' websites
This article uses data from a pilot study on the websites of 15 parliaments in Europe to identify which parliamentary functions are portrayed on these websites. The pilot study undertook a contents analysis focused on four parliamentary functions: legislation, legitimation, representation and scrutiny, to ascertain the extent to which each of these functions is present on the websites analysed. As parliaments face difficulties of public perceptio…
Dissent in a Party-Based Parliament: The Portuguese Case
With a focus on the Portuguese case, this article shows how MPs express disagreement with their parties in a highly cohesive and party-dominated parliament. We review the features that explain why the Portuguese institutional framework reinforces party control over the parliamentary mandate and discuss the different ways Portuguese MPs express party dissent. In the last section of the article, we analyse data on voting for a period of just over 3…
Towards a Trustee Model? Parliamentary Representation in the Internet Era: The Portuguese Case
This article considers whether new media have shifted the focus and style of parliamentary representation in Portugal. The Portuguese case is an interesting one to look at because it has been characterised by a strong responsible party model and very distant MP-Citizens relationships. The system is characterised by a heavily party-based parliament where individual MPs have little say and constituencies little meaning. Drawing on interviews with M…
Studying the Relationship between Parliament and Citizens
The relationship between parliament and citizens has been neglected traditionally by the legislative studies scholarship. And yet this is the area that has seen the most phenomenal developments within the last few decades. As a reaction against increasing levels of political disengagement, and utilising modern tools of communication such as new media, parliaments have in fact considerably developed the possibility of linkages with the public. And…
Developing Links Despite the Parties – Parliament and Citizens in Portugal
This article reviews the historical and institutional context of the Portuguese parliament and its consequences in shaping its relationship with citizens. This explains the heavily party-based representative mandate, as well as its national nature. Not only do parties mediate the relationship between parliament and citizens, but also constituencies have had little meaning in the Portuguese constitutional framework. Still, the article shows that t…
Parliaments' Endless Pursuit of Trust: Re-focusing on Symbolic Representation
This conclusion reviews the styles of relationship between parliament and citizens visible in very different political systems across the world. It shows that increasingly this relationship follows different styles according to specific contexts and beyond the traditional perception of a specific type of representation. It then demonstrates that parliaments have finally become public institutions with the new millennium, opening up considerably b…
How Are Parliaments Using New Media to Engage with Citizens
ICT-based methods of communication, and especially new forms of social media, offer parliaments the opportunity to communicate with citizens and engage them in the political process more effectively. This is important in a context of declining levels of trust in parliaments where new media is often identified as a tool to address poor engagement with politics. However, the use of ICT poses significant challenges to parliaments, many of which do n…
The Effectiveness of Incentive-Driven Role-Play
This article introduces an innovative approach to the role-play teaching technique: one driven by the presence of substance incentives. We analyse the effectiveness of this incentive-driven role-play approach in the engagement of students with International Relations and Security Studies seminars. We assess its usefulness on multiple fronts. We propose that incentive-driven role-play is an effective method of teaching that caters for students’ di…
Mind the Gap: Using UK Parliamentary Sources to Enhance Teaching
Online primary parliamentary sources can be of great value in teaching Parliamentrelated courses and a valuable means of promoting the development of students? research and analytical skills; particularly taking into account the research habits of the modern student population. Through a series of focus groups with politics students and a national survey of politics lecturers, the perceptions and current use of the UK Parliament website in teachi…
Portugal in the Twenty-First Century: Politics, Society, and Economics
Methods Teaching through a Discipline Research-Oriented Approach
In a context of intense debate around the need to promote stronger research skills in politics graduates, this article explores an approach to teaching research methods which focuses on the discipline, student and research process. Through a case study, we show that adopting a discipline-embedded research-oriented approach ensures student engagement with methods teaching. Following the principle that students should experience primary research fr…
How deeply are parliaments engaging on social media
E-Parliament and ICT-Based Legislation: Concept, Experiences and Lessons
E-Parliament and ICT-Based Legislation is an interesting book to have on your shelves. It is packed with information, particularly on case studies one hardly ever hears about. This is a book that w
The Pursuit of Legitimacy as a Key Driver for Public Engagement: The European Parliament Case
Political disengagement and declining trust have become main areas of concern for parliaments in Europe, leading to a considerable reinforcement of public engagement activities. The European Parliament is a prime example of an institution where the need to strengthen the link with citizens became a key priority, in particular following the Lisbon Treaty's reinforcement of the parliament's powers and visibility. This article analyses the decision-…
Why symbolic representation frames parliamentary public engagement
Research Highlights and Abstract The UK Parliament’s activity in public engagement has recently expanded considerably. Faced with declining levels of trust, it has invested considerable time and resources to new activities focusing specifically on engagement: educational resources and cultural events among many others. This embodies a new role for parliament of increasing importance particularly in the context of the 21st-century parliament. But …
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