Reforming senates : upper legislative houses in North Atlantic small powers 1800-present / edited by Nikolaj Bijleveld, Colin Grittner, David E. Smith and Wybren Verstegen.
Contributor(s): Verstegen, Wybren [editor.]
| Bijleveld, Nikolaj [editor.] | Smith, David E [editor.] | Grittner, Colin [editor.] | ProQuest (Firm) [distributor.].Series: Routledge studies in modern history: Publisher: Abingdon : Routledge, 2020Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780429323119; 9780367339685.Subject(s): Legislative bodies -- Upper chambers -- Europe -- History | Legislative bodies -- Upper chambers -- North Amercia -- History | States, Small | Middle powersGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 328.31091821 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | ELECTRONIC RESOURCE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2019-1804 |
Reforming senates in the post-revolutionary North-Atlantic world : an introduction / Nikolaj Bijleveld and WybrenVerstegen -- I. The need for a senate (c.1790-1870) / 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 -- 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 / 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 Senate1867-1970 : from elitist moderniser to democratic subordinate / Torbjörn Nilsson -- The senate and the 'social majority' : JoannesTheodorus Buijs (1826-1893) about a "meritocracy" in the Netherlands (1848-1887) / Wybren Verstegen -- The Irish Senate, 1920-1936 / John Dorney -- 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 / Bertvanden 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 Skjaevel -- 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.