Reforming senates : upper legislative houses in North Atlantic small powers 1800-present /: upper legislative houses in North Atlantic small powers 1800-present. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nikolaj Bijleveld, Colin Grittner, David E Smith and Wybren Verstegen.
• Editors: Verstegen, Wybren; Bijleveld, Nikolaj; Smith, David E, 1936-; Grittner, Colin
• Contents: Preface / Karel Davids -- Reforming senates in the post-revolutionary North-Atlantic world : an introduction / Nikolaj Bijleveld and WybrenVerstegen -- 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 -- 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 -- The vitality of the Dutch senate : two ccenturies 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 oresent / Muiris MacCarthaigh and Shane Martin -- Founding principles, constitutional conventions, and the representation of Francophones living outside of Quebec in the Canadian Senate since 1867 / LindaCardinal.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)
• Subjects: 328.3/1091821; Legislative bodies -- Europe -- Upper chambers -- History; Legislative bodies -- North America -- Upper chambers -- History; Representative government and representation -- Europe -- Hisory; Representative government and representation -- North America -- History; States, Small; Middle powers; Legislative bodies -- Upper chambers; Middle powers; Representative government and representation; States, Small; HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia; HISTORY / North America; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Europe; North America; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000706673; 1000706672; 9781000705690; 1000705692; 9781000706185; 1000706184; 9780429323119; 0429323115
• Related ISBNs: 9780367339685
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2019).
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