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Bhattacharya, C & Bates, S 2025, 'Policy specialisation in the twenty-first century UK House of Commons', The Journal of Legislative Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2025.2540209
Bates, S, Horncastle, W, Bhattacharya, C & McKay, S 2024, 'Which MPs get elevated to the UK House of Lords?', Parliamentary Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsae038
Bhattacharya, C, Hart, G, Haughey, S, Bates, S & Meakin, A 2022, 'The state of the sub-discipline: mapping parliamentary and legislative studies using a survey and bibliometric analysis of three of its journals', Parliamentary Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac011
Bates, S 2021, 'Re-structuring parliamentary roles', International Journal of Parliamentary Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22–46. https://doi.org/10.1163/26668912-bja10017
Goodwin, M, Bates, S & McKay, S 2020, 'Electing to do women’s work? Gendered divisions of labour in UK Select Committees, 1979-2016', Politics & Gender. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X19000874
Bates, S, Amery, F, McKay, S, Miller, C & Pflaeger Young, Z 2020, 'Response to Women in the Profession? Assuming Gender in the Analysis of the Composition of UK Politics Departments', Politics, pp. 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929920920796
Pflaeger Young, Z, Amery, F, Bates, S, McKay, S, Miller, C, Billings, T, Hayton, R, Holt, M, Khatri, J, Marvin, M, Ogunsanya, L, Ramdehal, A & Sullivan, R 2020, 'Women in the profession: an update on the gendered composition of the discipline and political science departments in the UK', Political Studies Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929920905503
Gaines, B, Goodwin, M, Bates, S & Sin, G 2019, 'A bouncy house? UK Select Committee newsworthiness, 2005-18', The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 409-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2019.1662612
McKay, S, Goodwin, M & Bates, S 2019, 'A means to an end and an end in itself: select committee membership, parliamentary roles and parliamentary careers, 1979-present', Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 799-820. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsz038
Gaines, B, Goodwin, M, Bates, S & Sin, G 2019, 'Conclusion: prospects for analysing committees in comparative perspective', The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 434-441. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2019.1662613
Bates, S & Sealey, A 2019, 'Representing women, women representing: backbenchers' questions during Prime Minister's questions, 1979-2010', European Journal of Politics & Gender, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 237–256 . https://doi.org/10.1332/251510819X15490283059237
Gaines, B, Goodwin, M, Bates, S & Sin, G 2019, 'The study of legislative committees', The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 331-339. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2019.1662614
Chapter
Bates, S, Thompson, L, Goodwin, M & McKay, S 2021, Still deviant? The development and reform of the UK House of Commons committee system (1979 to present). in S Siefken & H Rommetvedt (eds), Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process. Library of Legislative Studies, Routledge, London, pp. 302-319. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003106579-17
Bates, S, Kerr, P & Serban, R 2018, Questioning the Government. in C Leston-Bandiera & L Thompson (eds), Exploring Parliament. Oxford University Press, pp. 174-186.
Editorial
Bhattacharya, C, Hart, G, Haughey, S, Bates, S & Meakin, A 2022, 'The past, present and future of parliamentary and legislative studies', Parliamentary Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac007
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