Speakers and the Speakership

Presiding Officers and the Management of Business from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: Seaward, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the modern period, Speakers and other presiding officers are expected to remain impartial and above party politics; however, this was not always so, and in previous times they acted as key, though sometimes equivocal, government allies in the political management of Parliament. This volume is the first dedicated to the subject of Speakership since the mid-1960s, and offers an absorbing analysis of how Speakers and the Speakership have operated in Parliament in Britain. Composed of papers from a conference held at the House of Commons in April 2008, it explores the role of the Speaker and the Lord Chancellor in the Westminster Parliament before the advent of democracy, and sets it beside the practice in Dublin and Edinburgh over the same period, and the more recent history of the role both at London and at Washington. It concludes with a fascinating description by the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Boothroyd, of her own tenure of the chair.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781444332896
• ISBN-10: 1444332899
• Artikelnr.: 28100782

Autorenporträt

Paul Seaward has held the position of Director of the History of Parliament Trust since 2001. Previously, he was a Clerk in the House of Commons. He has written on politics, history and political thought in the late seventeenth century and on Parliament in the twentieth century. His publications include The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661-1667 (1989); The Restoration, 1660-1688 (1991); The Politics of Religion in Restoration England (1990: edited with Mark Goldie and Tim Harris); and editions of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion (2009) and Hobbes's History of the English Civil War, Behemoth (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors.
Introduction (Paul Seaward, History of Parliament).
1. Speakers at War in the Late 14th and 15th Centuries (Anne Curry,
University of Southampton).
2. The Tudor Speakers 1485-1601: Choosing, Status, Work (Alasdair Hawkyard,
Royal Historical Society).
3. Chancellors, Presidents and Speakers: Presiding Officers in the Scottish
Parliament before the Restoration (Alan R. MacDonald,University of Dundee
).
4. Speakers in the 17th-Century Irish Parliament (Coleman A. Dennehy, St
Patrick's College, Maynooth).
5. The Reputation and Authority of the Speaker and the Speakership of the
House of Commons, 1640-60 (Stephen K. Roberts,History of Parliament).
6. The Speaker in the Age of Party, 1672-1715 (Paul Seaward,History of
Parliament).
7. The Speakership of the House of Lords, 1660-1832 (Ruth Paley, History of
Parliament).
8. Thurlow, Eldon and Lyndhurst and the Management of the House of Lords (
Richard W. Davis, Washington University).
9.  'Nothing Could Exceed the Badness of His Character Even in This Bad
Age' (Sir William McKay,Council of the Law Society of Scotland).
10. The Role of the Speaker in the 20th Century (The Rt Hon. Baroness
Boothroyd, MP).
Index.

Rezensionen

"Both of these books contribute much to our under-standingof the history and current practice of the Speakership, and to theway in which well-documented parliamentary questions in the UK aswell as across Europe can provide a ready source of scholarlyinvestigation.." (Political Studies Review, 7August 2013)