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

ISBN-13: 9781032087719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str.

Nikolaj Bijleveld; Colin Grittner; David 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 figuresList of contributorsPrefaceKarel DavidsReforming Senates in the Post-Revolutionary North-Atlantic World. An IntroductionNikolaj 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 OddensThe Rise and Fall of the Quasi-bicameral System of Norway (1814-2007)Eivind SmithMembers of the Senate in the Southern Netherlands (Belgium) between Restoration and Revolution (1815-1831)Els WitteA Liberal Senate. The Danish Landsting of 1849Flemming Juul ChristiansenThe Senate of Canada: Renewed Life to an Original IntentDavid 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, 1848-1867Colin GrittnerAristocratic populism. The Belgian Senate and the Language of Democracy, 1848-1893Marnix BeyenRejecting the Upper Chamber: National Unity, Democratisation and Imperial Rule in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1860-1906 Onni PekonenThe Swedish Senate 1867-1970. From Elitist Moderniser to Democratic SubordinateTorbjörn NilssonThe Senate and the ‘Social Majority’. Joannes Theodorus Buijs (1826-1893) about a ‘Meritocracy’ in The Netherlands (1848-1887)Wybren VerstegenThe Irish Senate 1920-1936John 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 PowerBert van den BraakMarginalising the Upper House. Canada's Liberal Party, the Senate and Democratic Reform in 1920s CanadaAdam CoombsVocational Voices or Puppets of the Lower House? Irish Senators, 1938-1948Martin O’DonoghueThe Rise and Fall of Bicameralism in Sweden 1866-1970Joakim NergeliusUnicameralism in Denmark: Abolition of the Senate, Current Functioning and DebatesAsbjørn SkjævelandPrecarious bicameralism? Senates in Ireland from the late Middle Ages to the PresentMuiris MacCarthaigh and Shane MartinFounding principles, constitutional conventions, and the representation of Francophones living outside of Quebec in the Canadian Senate since 1867Linda Cardinal Index

O autorze

Nikolaj Bijleveld, historian, is a staff member at the University of Groningen.

Colin Grittner teaches Canadian history in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and the University of New Brunswick.

David E. Smith is a former president of the Canadian Political Science Association and the author of a number of books on the Canadian Parliament and on Canadian federalism.

Wybren Verstegen is Associate Professor in Economic and Social History at Vrije University, Amsterdam.