Reforming senates : upper legislative houses in North Atlantic small powers 1800-present /
edited by Nikolaj Bijleveld, Colin Grittner, David E. Smith and Wybren Verstegen.
- Routledge studies in modern history .
- Routledge studies in modern history. .
Reforming senates in the post-revolutionary North-Atlantic world : an introduction / I. The need for a senate (c.1790-1870) / Senates and bicameralism in revolutionary Europe (c.1795-1800) / The rise and fall of the quasi-bicameral system of Norway (1814-2007) / Members of the senate in the southern Netherlands (Belgium) between restoration and revolution (1815-1831) / A liberal senate : the Danish Landsting of 1849 / The Senate of Canada : renewed life to an original intent / II. Democracy, the people and the senate (c.1848-1935) / Constitutional conservatism, anti-democratic ideology, and the elective principle in British North America's upper legislative houses, 1848-1867 / Aristocratic populism : the Belgian Senate and the language of democracy, 1848-1893 / Rejecting the upper chamber : national unity, democratisation and imperial rule in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1860-1906 / The Swedish Senate1867-1970 : from elitist moderniser to democratic subordinate / The senate and the 'social majority' : JoannesTheodorus Buijs (1826-1893) about a "meritocracy" in the Netherlands (1848-1887) / The Irish Senate, 1920-1936 / 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 / Marginalising the upper house : Canada's Liberal Party, the Senate and democratic reform in 1920s Canada / Vocational voices or puppets of the lower house? : Irish senators, 1938-1948 / The rise and fall of bicameralism in Sweden, 1866-1970 / Unicameralism in Denmark : abolition of the senate, current functioning and debates / Precarious bicameralism? : senates in Ireland from the late Middle Ages to the present / Founding principles, constitutional conventions, and the representation of Francophones living outside of Quebec in the Canadian Senate since 1867 / Nikolaj Bijleveld and WybrenVerstegen -- Joris Oddens -- Eivind Smith -- Els Witte -- Flemming Juul Christiansen -- David E. Smith -- Colin Grittner -- Marnix Beyen -- Onni Pekonen -- Torbjörn Nilsson -- Wybren Verstegen -- John Dorney -- Bertvanden Braak -- Adam Coombs -- Martin O'Donoghue -- Joakim Nergelius -- Asbjørn Skjaevel -- Muiris MacCarthaigh and Shane Martin -- Linda Cardinal.