13:15 - 15:30
Thursday-Panel
Chair/s:
Julie Hassing Nielsen
Discussant/s:
Julia Schulte-Cloos
Meeting Room K

Christopher Anderson, Sara Hobolt
Changing Norms in Times of Crisis: Citizens, Masks, and Political Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Citizens, Masks, and Political Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wang Leung Ting
Impact of House of Common hybrid proceeding on members participation during COVID-19 pandemic

Julie Hassing Nielsen
Loyalty in the Face of Adversity? Exploring party loyalty during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis in Sweden and Denmark

Davide Morisi, Max Schaub, Guillaume Kon-Kam-King, Héloïse Cloléry
Incumbency voting, right-wing support, and the threat of Covid-19: the case of France

Moritz Marbach, Dalston Ward, Dominik Hangartner
How COVID-19 Lockdown Policies Weaken Civic Attitudes in the United States and Europe
Impact of House of Common hybrid proceeding on members participation during COVID-19 pandemic
Wang Leung Ting
London School of Economics

This paper explore how the adoption of hybrid proceeding during the COVID-19 pandemic affect MPs’ participation in the House. At the beginning of the pandemic, here were concerns that old age and family care duty may affect some MPs’ ability to discharging their function as representatives under the unprecedented circumstances. Using speech data from Hansard, this paper will analyse to what extend has age and familial status affected MPs participation during the pandemic and to what extend has the hybrid proceedings mitigated that. Moreover, hybrid proceedings and social distancing rules have significantly affect the working environment of the House by reducing the number of members present in the chamber and allowing remote contributions made through videoconferencing. Through textual analysis of data from Hansard, this paper would further explore if these changes of context under hybrid proceedings has affected the content and tone of parliamentary debate during the pandemic. Not only would these results shed light on whether the parliament was able to maintain its representativeness under the challenges of the pandemic, but it will also discover if and how remote contributions may affect the work of parliament should this become part of the proceeding moving forward.