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A selection of recent publications relating to parliamentary studies prepared with the assistance of the Library of Parliament (September 2015--November 2015)

Andreychuk, Anita Raynel. "Codes of conduct: Developing an ethics and conflict of interest code." Parliamentarian, (Issue 2, 2015): 112-15.

* One of the biggest challenges facing parliamentarians today is maintaining ethical standards and ensuring that public confidence in parliament is assured.

Birch, Sarah. "Voter engagement, electoral inequality and first-time compulsory voting." Political Quarterly Vol. 86, No. 3 (July-Sept. 2015):385-92.

* This paper reviews the problem of declining turnout and proposes as a solution a system whereby each elector would be legally obliged to vote in the first election for which they were eligible.

Campana, Nuria Gonzalez. "Book review: 'Constitutionalising Secession"'. Public Law (October 2015): 725-28.

* A brief, positive book review of 'Constitutionalising Secession' (2014) by David Haljan which includes chapters on Reference Re Quebec Secession and the Clarity Act.

Coyne, Andrew. "The brief: Minority rule by any other name." Walrus Vol. 12, No. 8 (October 2015):17-18.

* The case against first past the post.

Duncan, Grant. "New Zealand's Cabinet Manual: How does it shape constitutional conventions?" Parliamentary affairs Vol. 68 (2015):737-56.

* This article examines the experience surrounding the New Zealand Cabinet Manual in order to address some of the critical questions that parliamentarians and academics have raised about the possible effects of such documents upon constitutional conventions.

"Britain's House of Lords: Right answer, spoken out of turn." Economist. October 31, 2015.

* As long as it remains unelected, the second chamber cannot be a serious check on government.

Elliot, Mark. "A tangled constitutional web: the black-spider memos and the British constitution's relational architecture." Public Law (October 2015): 539-50.

* This article provides an overview of a recent UK court case--regarded by the author as having constitutional-blockbuster status--involving an access to information request for Prince Charles's black-spider memos.

McCormack, Nancy. "Bills sent by mistake: Canada's Bill C-479 (2014) and the long history of sending the wrong version of a bill from one House of Parliament to the other." Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law Vol. 9, No. 2 (September 2015): 307-31.

* There is a long history of one House sending...