Parliaments and the Resilience of Democracies

BySTS 2024-03-122024-03-12

The Federal Ministry of the Interior is organizing a training course on the resilience of democracy. It brings academics into exchange and discussion with staff of the German Federal administration. Sven T. Siefken discussed the topic of parliaments in crises. Building on definitions of crises and the role of parliaments in the political systems, Siefken presented findings about parliaments in the pandemic situation – and what can be learned from it for future crises and for the normal situation, too. More about the training course can be found here: https://www.bakoev.bund.de/DE/02_Themen/Resiliente_Demokratie/Resiliente_Demokratie_node.html

Parliaments | Teaching

Challenges to Parliamentary Governance

BySTS 2023-10-162023-10-17

McGill University in Montreal, Canada, has run an exciting program for new MPs and staff from around the globe. Sven T. Siefken spoke on current political challenges to the German Bundestag, discussing the tension between MPs’ policy specialization versus societal outreach? The presentation gave an overview about how the Bundestag, one of the strongest parliaments…

Conferences | PiP | Research

“Revisiting Parliaments in Pandemics” in Prague

BySTS 2022-05-272022-12-06

In May 2022, the Academy of Sciences organized a workshop Revisiting Parliaments in Pandemics. Keynote speaker Sven T. Siefken presented first findings of the second wave of a global expert survey ‘Parliaments in Pandemics’. Conducted in 2020, 2021, and 2022, the survey focused on how the pandemic changed the legislatures’ roles and, in particular, electoral, legislative, oversight, communication and representation…

Parliaments | PiP

Irish Parliament: What to learn from the crisis?

BySTS 2023-01-202023-01-20

In its 2023 workshop, the leadership of the parliamentary administration of the Houses of the Oireachtas discussed with Sven T. Siefken what can be learned from the pandemic situation for their own work in future crises – and in „normal“ situations, too

Parliaments | Teaching

Meeting Bundestag interns from Arabic countries

BySTS 2023-09-042023-09-06

The Bundestag has been been running the international scholarship program for young professionals from various parts of the world. Sven T. Siefken delivered an opening presentation on „politics in a parliamentary democracy“ and led the discussion for the 2023 class of participants from various Arabic countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Tunisia, Bahrain, Algeria, Iraqi. More…

Parliaments

Advisory Council of “Hallo Bundestag”

BySTS 2023-12-182024-01-06

”Hallo Bundestag” is an initiative that organizes mini publics in MP districts around Germany. Sven T. Siefken has been supporting the project as a core member of the academic advisory council. More about “Hallo Bundestag” is available here

Parliaments

“Public Outreach und Public Engagement” von Parlamenten weltweit

BySTS 2021-02-102022-12-05

Im dritten Global Parliamentary Report untersuchen die Inter-Parlamentarische Union (IPU) gemeinsam mit dem United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), wie Parlamente ihre “Outreach”-Tätigkeiten wahrnehmen. Zur Begleitung der Studie, die im Oktober 2021 vorgelegt werden soll, wurde im Januar 2021 ein Advisory Board eingerichtet. Cristina Leston-Bandeira (Leeds) und Sven T. Siefken (MLU) vertreten dort die Parlamentsforschung.

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