Reforming Senates: Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present

ISBN-13: 9780367339685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 274 str.

Nikolaj Bijleveld; Colin Grittner; David E. Smith

Opis

This original and new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories.

Spis treści

List of figures

List of contributors

Preface

Karel Davids

Reforming Senates in the Post-Revolutionary North-Atlantic World. An Introduction

Nikolaj Bijleveld and Wybren Verstegen

　

Part I: The Need for a Senate (c. 1790-c. 1870)

Senates and Bicameralism in Revolutionary Europe (c. 1795-1800)

Joris Oddens

The Rise and Fall of the Quasi-bicameral System of Norway (1814-2007)

Eivind Smith

Members of the Senate in the Southern Netherlands (Belgium) between Restoration and Revolution (1815-1831)

Els Witte

A Liberal Senate. The Danish Landsting of 1849

Flemming Juul Christiansen

The Senate of Canada: Renewed Life to an Original Intent

David E. Smith

　

Part II: Democracy, the people and the senate (c. 1848-c. 1935)

Constitutional Conservatism, Anti-Democratic Ideology, and the Elective Principle in British North America’s Upper Legislative Houses, 1848-1867

Colin Grittner

Aristocratic populism. The Belgian Senate and the Language of Democracy, 1848-1893

Marnix Beyen

Rejecting the Upper Chamber: National Unity, Democratisation and Imperial Rule in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1860-1906

Onni Pekonen

The Swedish Senate 1867-1970. From Elitist Moderniser to Democratic Subordinate

Torbjörn Nilsson

The Senate and the ‘Social Majority’. Joannes Theodorus Buijs (1826-1893) about a ‘Meritocracy’ in The Netherlands (1848-1887)

Wybren Verstegen

The Irish Senate 1920-1936

John Dorney

　

Part III: Does a state still need a Senate? (c. 1920-present)

The Vitality of the Dutch Senate. Two Centuries of Reforms and Staying in Power

Bert van den Braak

Marginalising the Upper House. Canada's Liberal Party, the Senate and Democratic Reform in 1920s Canada

Adam Coombs

Vocational Voices or Puppets of the Lower House? Irish Senators, 1938-1948

Martin O’Donoghue

The Rise and Fall of Bicameralism in Sweden 1866-1970

Joakim Nergelius

Unicameralism in Denmark: Abolition of the Senate, Current Functioning and Debates

Asbjørn Skjæveland

Precarious bicameralism? Senates in Ireland from the late Middle Ages to the Present

Muiris MacCarthaigh and Shane Martin

Founding principles, constitutional conventions, and the representation of Francophones living outside of Quebec in the Canadian Senate since 1867

Linda Cardinal

　

Index