Reforming Senates

Upper Legislative Houses in North Atlantic Small Powers 1800-present
Herausgeber: Bijleveld, Nikolaj; Smith, David; Grittner, Colin

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Produktbeschreibung

This new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and the reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises within the North Atlantic world and were influenced by the comparatively weak positions of small powers. Reformers responded to crises and constantly looked beyond borders and oceans for inspiration to keep their senates relevant. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429323119, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781032087719
• ISBN-10: 1032087714
• Artikelnr.: 62153317

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Senates in the North Atlantic 1800-2000 (Karel Davids)
Introduction: Senates in Crises (Nikolaj Bijleveld and Wybren Verstegen)
Part One: The need for a senate (1800- 1905) 1. Réflexion in the Batavian
Republic (The Netherlands) around 1800 (Joris Oddens) 2. Members of the
Senate in the Southern Netherlands (Belgium) between restoration and
revolution (1815-1831) (Els Witte) 3. Constitutional Conservatism,
Anti-Democratic Ideology, and the Elective Principle in British North
America's Upper Legislative Houses, 1848-1867 (Colin Grittner) 4. The
evolution of the Senate of Canada from its creation in 1867 until the
present, the 150th anniversary of Confederation (David Smith) 5. The "Upper
Chamber" of Norway in the 19th and 20th century (Eivind Smith) 6. The
Swedish Senate 1867- 1921 (Torbjörn Nilsson) 7. A Liberal Upper Chamber.
The Danish Landsting of 1849 (Flemming Juul Christiansen) 8. Rejecting the
Upper Chamber: National Unity, Democratization and Imperial Rule in the
Grand Duchy of Finland, 1860-1906 (Onni Pekonen) Part Two: Democracy, the
people and the senate (1867-1930) 9. The Dutch Senate: a meritocracy? The
critical remarks of Joannes Theoorus Buijs (1883) (Wybren Verstegen) 10. An
aristocratic institution coping with democracy. (Self-) perceptions of the
Belgian Senate, 1831-1893 (Marnix Beyen) 11. Marginalizing the Upper
Chamber. Canada's Liberal Party, the Senate and Democratic Reform in 1920s
Canada (Adam Coombs) 12. The Irish Senate 1912-1937 (John Dorney) Part
Three: Senates revisited 13. Attempts to reform the Dutch Senate,
especially in the 20th century (Bert van den Braak) 14. Vocational voices
or puppets of the Lower House? Irish senators, 1938-1948 (Martin
O'Donoghue) 15. Abolishing the Swedish Senate (20th century) ( Joakim
Nergelius) 16. Unicameralism in Denmark since 1953 (Asbjørn Skjaeveland)
17. Precarious bicameralism? Senates in Ireland from the Late Middle Ages
to the Present (Shane Martin and Muiris MacCartaigh) 18. The Representation
of Minorities in the Canadian Senate (Linda Cardinal) Conclusions: the
persistence of and new roles for an 'outmoded' and 'elitist' institute
(Nikolaj Bijleveld and Wybren Verstegen)