June 2012
	Foreword by Carla van Baalen
	With summer breaks coming up we would like to inform you about the latest developments within our network. Some significant steps have been made during the past six months in strengthening the network. Network coordinator Joris Oddens and the EuParl members have been working hard to elaborate plans for closer cooperation and common research projects. Hopefully, we will be able to show some tangible new results soon. This newsletter focuses on the developments in projects of our individual partners, and some projects in which EuParl.net members are already closely cooperating. We are also very pleased to announce the accession of a new partner, the Commission for the History of the Habsburg Monarchy, located in Vienna. Best wishes, Carla van Baalen
EuParl.net: new developments New member The Austrian Commission for the History of the Habsburg Monarchy has joined the network. This research institute is part of the Austrian Academy of the Science’s Center for Modern and Contemorary History. The main research topic of the institute is the history of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian empire in the 19th and early 20th century. Read more News: Comité d'Histoire Parlementaire et Politique (France) 'Parliamentary diplomacy' The latest issue of Parlement(s), Revue d'histoire politique, examines the informal and personal engagement of parlementarians as non-professional diplomats.  Read more 1871 elections The previous edition of the journal, issued in May, analyses the 1871 French parliamentary elections. Read more       Research projects by EuParl members Parliamentary Means of Conflict Resolution in 20th Century Britain University of Jyväskyla, Finland In the Academy of Finland Project, Parliamentary Means of Conflict Resolution in Twentieth-Century Britain (2010–2013), it is argued that parliamentary sources can shed light on parliamentary modes of conflict management and on the associated political use of language. Read more The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1832-68 History of Parliament, United Kingdom The House of Commons, 1832-68 is the latest research project in the History of Parliament’s series of publications charting the development, personnel and activities of the Westminster Parliament over the last 700 years. Read more Voter-elite linkage in EU Decision-making Montesquieu Institute, The Netherlands This research, by Lucie Spanihelova, examines whether and to what extent membership of the EU, changes the relationship between the public and the national political elites. Read more     News: Commission for the History of the Habsburg Monarchy (Austria) Two conferences on parliamentary history In April and September 2011 the Commission organised conferences devoted to parliamentary history in Central Europe. Papers of both conferences are forthcoming. Read more Publication forthcoming on the Slovenian Catholic reform movement A book publication on the Slovenian Catholic reform movement and its idea of the Yugoslav state will be released shortly. Read more Publication Franz Adlgasser Franz Adlgasser has published an article on the higher nobility in the old Austrian Parliament. Read more Participation Franz Adlgasser at conference Franz Adlgasser participated at a conference in Berlin, May 2012, titled 'Elite careers in the Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman multi-ethnic empires 1850-1918'. Read more News: Biography and Parliament (Spain) Publication on the Basque Question 1793-1877 Prosoparlam has published a book on the Basque Question 1793-1877. Read more       News: KGParl (Germany) International conference on ‘Parlementary cultures in Europe’ In October 2011 the second international conference, organised by KGParl, took place in Prague. Read more KGParl has a new president Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Recker from Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main has been appointed as the new president of KGParl.  Read more       News: Centre for Parliamentary History (The Netherlands) and KGParl (Germany) Research and seminar on Erich Salomon: parliamentary photographer in Berlin and The Hague (1918-1940) In December 2011 an inspirational expert seminar took place in the framework of the research project 'Erich Salomon parliamentary photographer in Berlin and The Hague.' Since September 2010 the Montesquieu Institute is facilitating this research project by Dr. Marij Leenders (Centre for Parliamentary History) in co-operation with the German historian dr. Andreas Biefang (KGParl). Read more News: Institute for Parliamentarism and Democracy Questions Vienna (Austria) The size of the Austrian parliament  Prof. Dr. Werner Zögernitz has contributed to the discussion on a smaller Austrian parliament. Read more Good Governance and democratic culture Prof. Dr. Sully has organised a conference on Good Governance and democratic culture, Tbilisi, June 7-10. Read more Publications Prof. Dr. Sully edited a book on the Culture of Governance in the Black Sea region. Read more       Upcoming events Seminar 'Parliament, politics and corruption' 26 June 2012 in London, United Kingdom Organised by History of Parliament More information Nations within the nation-state - The making of the cultural and political nations in contemporary Europe 2-4 July 2012 in Bilbao, Spain Organised by Prosoparlam More information Workshop Parliaments and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of Disputes on a European Concept 27-29 August 2012 in Jyväskylä, Finland Organised by the University of Jyväskyla More information Montesquieu Institute Summer Conference 28 August - 7 September 2012 in The Hague, The Netherlands Organised by the Montesquieu Institute More information Conference on The Cortes of Cadiz and the First Spanish Liberal Constitutionalism, and its International Impact 5-8 September 2012 in Cadiz, Spain Organised by Prosoparlam More information History of Parliament annual lecture 31 October 2012 in London, United Kingdom Organised by History of Parliament More information EuParl working Conference 8-9 November 2012 in Paris, France Organised by EuParl and CHPP Third conference in the series Parliamentary Cultures 'Parliamentarism in Europe: Perception, Interpretation, Remembrance' 30 May - 1 June 2013 in The Hague, The Netherlands Organised by KGParl and the Montesquieu Institute     Publication Stéphane Jettot, Représenter le Roi ou la Nation?: Les parlementaires dans la diplomatie anglaise (1660-1702) Stéphane Jettot, historian at the Paris-Sorbonne university, analyses parliamentary reports, diplomatic archives and personal diaries of members of the House of Commons who have in common that they combined both a seat in parliament and experience in the British embassies on the continent. The sources used shed new light on the interaction between domestic developments and diplomatic negotioations in England under the last Stuarts.
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