Harshan Kumarasingham

Position

Fellow

Profile

Harshan Kumarasingham completed his PhD in Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington, which examined the Westminster System at the Executive level in various Commonwealth polities. Harshan's work on constitutional, political and historical issues has been published in international journals and he has been awarded various scholarships and prizes.  He has held many research positions including Claude McCarthy Fellow to research in New Delhi, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the University of Melbourne and most recently was awarded the British Council Research Exchange Award to conduct research at Queen Mary College at the University of London. Harshan's latest book is Onward with Executive Power - Lessons from New Zealand 1947-57 (2010).

Contact

Harshan.Kumarasingham@gmail.com

Papers and Publications

"Executive Power: 60 Years On Has Anything Changed?", Policy Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 4, Nov 2010, pp 46-52.

"Unicameralism: The Strange Eventful Death of the Legislative Council of New Zealand", Australasian Parliamentary Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring 2010.

"What if New Zealand had reintroduced an upper house?" in Stephen Levine (ed.), New Zealand as it Might Have Been 2, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2010.