This original and new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories.
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.
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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
Americas 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, 18601906 (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, 19381948 (Martin O'Donoghue)
15. Abolishing the Swedish Senate
(20th century) ( Joakim Nergelius)
16. Unicameralism in Denmark since 1953
(Asbjųrn 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)
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.
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