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Meg Russell's Degrees

PhD Politics University of Essex
Masters Politics University of Essex
Bachelors Politics University of Essex

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According to Wikipedia, Meg Russell is a constitutional scholar of British politics. She is Professor of British and Comparative Politics at University College London. Biography Russell worked in the House of Commons and for the British Labour Party before taking up a role with UCL at the Constitution Unit. In 2006 she was awarded the Richard Rose Prize from the Political Studies Association. She has served as an advisor to the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons and the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee. Russell is a senior fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe research institute and an Associate of the Institute for Government. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.

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Building New Labour (2005) (81)
Assessing the Impact of Parliamentary Oversight Committees: The Select Committees in the British House of Commons (2013) (76)
Building New Labour: The Politics of Party Organisation (2005) (76)
The Policy Power of the Westminster Parliament: The “Parliamentary State” and the Empirical Evidence (2016) (64)
Reforming the House of Lords: Lessons from Overseas (2000) (58)
What are Second Chambers for (2001) (57)
The Contemporary House of Lords: Westminster Bicameralism Revived (2013) (56)
None of the Above: The UK House of Commons votes on reforming the House of Lords (2003) (50)
The Territorial Role of Second Chambers (2001) (44)
Women's Representation in the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales: Party Dynamics for Achieving Critical Mass (2002) (43)
Why Does the Government get Defeated in the House of Lords?: The Lords, the Party System and British Politics (2007) (39)
Selective Influence: The Policy Impact of House of Commons Select Committees (2011) (39)
‘Never Allow a Crisis Go To Waste’: The Wright Committee Reforms to Strengthen the House of Commons (2011) (37)
Does the Executive Dominate the Westminster Legislative Process?: Six Reasons for Doubt (2016) (33)
The Policy Impact of Defeats in the House of Lords (2008) (29)
Positive Action to Promote Women in Politics: Some European Comparisons (2003) (29)
A Stronger Second Chamber? Assessing the Impact of House of Lords Reform in 1999 and the Lessons for Bicameralism (2010) (28)
Parliamentary party cohesion (2014) (25)
Assessing the Policy Impact of Parliament: Methodological Challenges and Possible Future Approaches (2009) (24)
Why are Second Chambers so Difficult to Reform? (2002) (24)
The Constituency Work of Scottish and Welsh MPs: Adjusting to Devolution (2007) (19)
The Muddle of the ‘Westminster Model’: A Concept Stretched Beyond Repair (2020) (18)
Women's Political Participation in the UK (2002) (18)
Reforming the House of Lords (2000) (16)
Rethinking Bicameral Strength: A Three-Dimensional Approach (2013) (16)
Independent Parliamentarians En Masse: The Changing Nature and Role of the ‘Crossbenchers’ in the House of Lords (2008) (15)
Brexit and Parliament: The Anatomy of a Perfect Storm (2020) (15)
Legislation at Westminster: Parliamentary Actors and Influence in the Making of British Law (2017) (15)
Must Politics Disappoint (2005) (13)
Fitting the Bill: Bringing Commons Legislation Committees into Line with Best Practice (2013) (13)
The Government of England by Westminster (2006) (13)
What Kind of Brexit do Voters want? Lessons from the Citizens’ Assembly on Brexit (2018) (12)
The House of Lords in 2005: A More Representative and More Assertive Chamber? (2006) (11)
The Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords: A House for the Future? (2001) (11)
Modes of UK Executive–Legislative Relations Revisited (2018) (11)
Prospects for Parliamentary Reform (2010) (11)
Pre-Appointment Scrutiny Hearings in the British House of Commons: All Bark, or Some Bite? (2012) (10)
Actors, Motivations and Outcomes in the Legislative Process: Policy Influence at Westminster (2015) (10)
Responsibilities of Second Chambers: Constitutional and Human Rights Safeguards (2001) (10)
Is the House of Lords Already Reformed (2003) (10)
Corbyn as an Organisational Phenomenon: A Response to Steve Richards (2016) (10)
Elected Second Chambers and Their Powers: An International Survey (2012) (9)
Bicameral Parliamentary Scrutiny of Government Bills: A Case Study of the Identity Cards Bill (2007) (9)
Women in Elected Office in the UK, 1992–2002: Struggles, Achievements and Possible Sea Change (2003) (9)
Legitimacy and Bicameral Strength: A Case Study of the House of Lords (2006) (8)
Devolution and Westminster: Tentative Steps towards a More Federal Parliament (2000) (7)
The Local Work of Scottish MPs and MSPs: Effects of Non-coterminous Boundaries and AMS (2005) (7)
The House Rules? International lessons for enhancing the autonomy of the House of Commons (2007) (7)
The Constitution: Rolling out the New Settlement (2001) (6)
Parliament: The House of Lords — A More Representative and Assertive Chamber? (2006) (6)
A Considered Public Voice on Brexit: The Report of the Citizens' Assembly on Brexit (2017) (6)
House of Lords Reform: Are We Nearly There Yet? (2009) (6)
House of Lords Reform (2008) (6)
(Re)assessing Parliamentary Policy Impact: The Case of the Australian Senate (2010) (6)
The Context for Reform (2005) (6)
Towards a New Constitutional Settlement: An Agenda for Gordon Brown’s First 100 Days and Beyond (2007) (5)
The Impact of Devolution on Westminster: If not now, when? (2004) (5)
Welfare Policy Under New Labour: Views from Inside Westminster (2009) (5)
The Women's Representation Bill: Making it Happen (2001) (5)
Principles of Reform (2000) (5)
The House of Lords: Negotiating a Stronger Second Chamber (2007) (3)
Second Chambers as Constitutional Guardians and Protectors of Human Rights (1999) (3)
The Politics Show (2005) (3)
The Constitution: Dragging the Constitution out of the Shadows? (2004) (3)
Demystifying Financial Privilege: Does the Commons' claim of financial primacy on Lords amendments need reform? (2014) (3)
House Full: Time to Get a Grip on Lords Appointments (2011) (3)
Second Chambers Overseas (1999) (2)
Parliament: a significant constraint on government (2016) (2)
The British constitution in 1998-99: the continuing revolution (2000) (2)
A Measurable Difference: Assessing the Westminster Parliament’s Impact on Government Legislation, 2005-2010 (2012) (2)
Westminster and the English Question (2006) (2)
BBC Radio Ulster (2005) (2)
Explaining Parliamentary Party Cohesion: Can Psychology Help? (2008) (2)
Commentary on the Wakeham Report on Reform of the House of Lords (2000) (2)
Why it Is Indeed Time for the Westminster Model to Be Retired from Comparative Politics (2021) (2)
Parliamentarians without Party: The 'Crossbenchers' in the House of Lords (2006) (2)
Representing the Nations and Regions in a New Upper House (1999) (2)
8. Parliamentary Scrutiny and Influence on Government Bills (2018) (2)
An Appointed Upper House: Lessons from Canada (1998) (2)
The House of Lords in 2006: Negotiating a Stronger Second Chamber (2007) (1)
Second Chambers: Resolving Deadlock (1999) (1)
Upper House Reform in the United Kingdom and Australia (2001) (1)
Learning to Live with Pluralism? Constituency and Regional Members and Local Representation in Scotland and Wales (2005) (1)
Principles of Successful Civic Engagement in the National Park Service (2013) (1)
A second chamber for a modern democracy : a comparative study (2003) (1)
The Westminster Hour (2005) (1)
The House of Lords and Reform: A View from the Outside (2005) (1)
The Constituency Roles of Members of the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly: Member Types and the Politics of Constituent Casework (2005) (1)
Change and the Illusion of Change (2005) (1)
National Executive Committee (1948) (1)
‘Stretched but not snapped’: A response to Russell & Serban on Retiring the ‘Westminster Model’ (2021) (1)
Quotas are Good for Democracy (2001) (1)
‘A Parliament That Bows and Scrapes’?: The Westminster parliament’s impact on government legislation 2005-2010 (2012) (1)
Attempts to change the British House of Lords into a second chamber of the nations and regions: explaining a history af failed reforms (2018) (1)
The Politicians' Response to Devolution (2009) (1)
Whose House Is It Anyway (2008) (1)
Managing Parliament Better? A Business Committee for the House of Commons (2006) (1)
Next Steps in Lords Reform: Response to the September 2003 White Paper (2003) (1)
Parliament and Brexit: what went wrong, and why we urgently need to fix it (2020) (0)
Devolution and the Constituency Role of the British MP (2004) (0)
Ditch the Pantomime (2007) (0)
Towards a New Constitutional Settlement (2007) (0)
Selecting Candidates and Leaders: The Battle for One Member One Vote (2005) (0)
Reform Frustrated: The Grassroots (2005) (0)
Modernising the Labour party: Organisational change since 1983 (2008) (0)
A New Upper House to Represent the Nations and Regions (2000) (0)
A second referendum is clearly possible (2018) (0)
Independents Holding the Parliamentary Balance: The 'Crossbenchers' in the House of Lords (2007) (0)
The Role and Functions of a New Chamber (2000) (0)
The Politics of Lords Reform (2013) (0)
Constitutional and Constituency Roles (2000) (0)
Is the House of Lords ‘Legitimate’? Attitudes Towards the Chamber (2013) (0)
BBC News 24 (2005) (0)
Can Parliament Protect Our Liberties against the Executive (2009) (0)
A House of Cards (2007) (0)
The Composition and Context of the Chamber (2000) (0)
Committees and Investigative Work (2000) (0)
Our Books Are Important to Us (2017) (0)
The demons no longer exist: Maybe before we reform the House of Lords we should make more of an effort to understand it in its current form (2007) (0)
Sunday Supplement, BBC Wales (2013) (0)
Kate Silverton Show, BBC Radio Five Live (2009) (0)
The Week at Westminster, Radio 4 (2007) (0)
Epilogue: Prospects for Reform (2000) (0)
Essential scrutiny or a national embarrassment? Experts respond to the Hansard Society’s report on Prime Minister’s Questions (2014) (0)
The Role of Independents in the Current House of Lords (2005) (0)
Government and the Second Chamber (2000) (0)
The Lords as a Barrier to Government: Legislative Defeats (2013) (0)
The House of Lords: Adaptation and Resilience (2005) (0)
The Legislative Role of the Chamber (2000) (0)
Conclusions: The House of Lords, British Politics and Legislative Bicameralism (2013) (0)
Upper House Reform in the UK and Australia (2001) (0)
Selection under Blair: The Fall and Rise of One Member One Vote (2005) (0)
How Do We Do Politics Differently (2009) (0)
Europe Today, BBC World Service (2009) (0)
Peers’ and Public Attitudes to the Contemporary House of Lords (2007) (0)
Lords Reform : Principles and Prospects (2007) (0)
Rebuilding the Winning Partnership: Proposals for Labour Party Renewal (2007) (0)
Reforming the British House of Lords: How a Little Reform can go a Long Way (Australian Senate Occasional Lecture) (2006) (0)
How long would it take to hold a second referendum on Brexit (2018) (0)
A Brief History of the House of Lords (2013) (0)
David Cameron’s Syria defeat was unexpected, but Prime Ministers are regularly forced to bow to Parliament’s will (2013) (0)
Judging the White Paper against International Practice of Bicameralism (2011) (0)
The Pacific Northwest forest dispute : processes, constructions, and representations (2001) (0)
Multilevel Politics and the Constituency Representation Role: The Impact of Devolution in Scotland and Wales (2005) (0)
The Record Review, BBC Parliament (2009) (0)
Elect your peers (2000) (0)
Political Actors in the Lords (2013) (0)
Tony Wright on Doing Politics Differently: the Commentators (2009) (0)
Democracy and Power in ‘New’ Labour (2005) (0)
Time to Speak Up (2005) (0)
Enough is Enough: Regulating Prime Ministerial Appointments to the Lords (2015) (0)
Negotiated Outcomes and the Wider Legislative Impact of the Lords (2013) (0)
Second Chambers Overseas: A Summary (1999) (0)
Politics and Personalities in the Chamber (2000) (0)
Dragging the Constitution out of the Shadows (2004) (0)
A Directly Elected Upper House: Lessons from Italy and Australia (1999) (0)
Binding Different Levels of Government Together (2000) (0)
A ‘more democratic and representative’ upper house? some international comparisons (2000) (0)
The House of Commons’ “financial privilege” on Lords amendments: perceived problems and possible solutions (2015) (0)
Second Chambers Worldwide (2000) (0)
The Westminster Hour (Radio 4) (2008) (0)
Explaining Parliamentary Party Cohesion: Can Social Psychology Help? (2009) (0)
Life after heredity (1998) (0)
Constituency Role of MPs and AMs/MSPs post-devolution (2005) (0)
Bicameralism in Theory and Comparative Perspective (2013) (0)
The House of Lords and lessons for bicameralism (2008) (0)
The Composition of a New Chamber (2000) (0)
Organisation and Administration (2000) (0)
Robin Cook, 1946-2005 (2005) (0)
The Constituency Role of Scottish and Welsh MPs and the Impact of Devolution (2005) (0)
The Today Programme, Radio 4 (2007) (0)
The Left, Democracy and the Constitution (2010) (0)
House of Lords Reform since 1911: Must the Lords Go? (2012) (0)
Review : The Contemporary House of Lords : Westminster Bicameralism Revived by Meg Russell (2017) (0)
A Brief Introduction to the Contemporary House of Lords (2013) (0)
Book Review: Thomas Quinn, Modernising the Labour Party: Organisational Change Since 1983. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. £56.00 (hbk). 240 pp. ISBN 1 4039 3584 X (2008) (0)
The World Tonight (Radio 4) (2007) (0)
The Policy Impact of Parliamentary Oversight Committees: Visible and Less Visible Factors (2011) (0)
A Vocational Upper House?: Lessons from Ireland (1999) (0)
Parliament: Emasculated or Emancipated? (2008) (0)
Non-legislative Policy Work (2013) (0)
Public Perceptions and Calls for Reform (2000) (0)
The House of Lords: Reform Past and Future (2007) (0)
Politics UK (BBC World Service) (2008) (0)
The Westminster Hour (BBC Radio Four) (2009) (0)
Reforming a Non-Elected Upper House: The Strange Rebirth of the House of Lords (2007) (0)
Lords A'Leaping (2007) (0)
Women in the Party: The Quiet Revolution (2005) (0)
Radio 5 Live (2003) (0)
The Westminster Hour (BBC Radio 4) (2008) (0)
The UK Parliament and War-Making Powers: A Convention in the Making? (2006) (0)
The Petrie Hosken Show, LBC (2009) (0)

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Reforming the House of Lords