ThePresentof Parliamentary and Legislative Studies

Abstract

In this article, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson, Emma Crewe and Shane Martin discuss the present of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the past, present and future of parliamentary studies, which was held online on 9 June 2021 as part of the Annual Conference of the UK Political Studies Association’s Parliaments Specialist Group.

Introduction

“…We might extend Abreu's resistance to such universalising 'travelling rationalities' that circulate with particular energy in the West, as David Mosse (2011) called them within the context of international development, to an appreciation of vernacular methodological approaches to the study of governance institutions. US political science in particular has suffered a retrenchment to taking seriously only narrow quantitative approaches that are perceived to be more reliable and rigorous than emergent, holistically-inclined and multi-disciplinary theories of method (Taylor-Robinson, Crewe and Martin, 2022). Decolonizing the global community of scholars is an urgent challenge not just for the sake of a stronger academia but because democracy benefits from critical and in-depth scrutiny by diverse academics (Crewe, 2021, p. 343).…”