Established: 1936. Affiliate since May 2019. Membership: 202. Annual dues: €30 individual.

Statement of Purpose: The aim of the commission is to promote research into the origin, growth, and development of representative and parliamentary institutions throughout the world in all periods. In particular, it encourages the study of the development of representative institutions in a wide and comparative way. It facilitates the international exchange of bibliographical information. It is concerned with the political theory and institutional practice of representation as well as with the internal organization and the social and political background to parliaments and assemblies of estates.

Annual Meeting: Usually in September

Publication: Parliaments, Estates, and Representation, twice a year

Website: http://www.ichrpi.info/

Addresses
(in Europe)
Mario Di Napoli
Camera dei Deputati
Palazzo Montecitorio
00186 Rome, Italy
Email: dinapoli_m@camera.it

(in the US)
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
8902 Old Montgomery Rd. 
Columbia, MD 21045
Email: aschenbrenner.historian@gmail.com

Officers

President
Joseba Agirreazkuenaga
Univ. of the Basque Country
E-mail: joseba.agirreazkuenaga@ehu.eus

Vice President
Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho
Univ. de Coimbra
E-mail: coelhomh@gmail.com

Treasurer
Gerald Kohl
Univ. Wien
E-mail: gerald.kohl@univie.ac.at

Secretary-General
Mario Di Napoli
Camera dei Deputati
E-mail: dinapoli_m@camera.it

Editor
John R. Young
Univ. of Strathclyde
E-mail: john.r.young@strath.ac.uk

US National Convenor
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
E-mail: aschenbrenner.historian@gmail.com

Updated 5/7/19