Managing Parliament's Image

Welcome to the Managing Parliament’s Image project website.

This research project aims to understand how parliaments in Europe manage their corporate image, focusing on the image portrayed on parliamentary websites. Specifically, it aims to uncover the decision-making processes through which the scope and content of parliamentary websites are determined and whether this is integrated with a wider parliamentary strategy for managing its image.

This is a two year comparative project focusing on five parliaments in Europe - British, European, French, Portuguese and Scottish – where we will undertake interviews with parliamentary actors who are key in the respective decision-making processes. The interviews will be informed by relevant official documents and a content analysis of these parliaments’ websites.   

This website contains background information on the project and of other research into parliamentary reform and administration, parliament and ICT and the relationship with citizens. We hope to disseminate the primary research data and papers as the project progresses.

The project was developed by Dr Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Senior Lecturer in Legislative Studies at the University of Hull and is supported by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant (RES-000-22-4072)..