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Genre/Form: | Book |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Aroney; J R Nethercote; Scott Prasser |
ISBN: | 9781921401091 1921401095 |
OCLC Number: | 231588543 |
Description: | xiii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Upper houses and the problem of elective dictatorship -- Scott Prasser, . R. Nethercote and Nicholas Aroney -- PART ONE: BICAMERALISM: PHILOSOPHY AND DOCTRINE -- Bicameralism and democratic deliberation n John Uhr -- Bicameralism and representations of democracy -- Nicholas Aroney -- The logic of bicameralism: a rational actor account -- Geoffrey Brennan -- PART TWO: THE AUSTRALIAN SENATE -- The case for bicameralism -- Harry Evans -- The Australian Senate and responsible government -- Senator George Brandis, SC -- An Opposition view of the Australian Senate -- SenatorJohn Hogg -- The Senate: some modest proposals -- J.R. Nethercote. PART THREE: THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE -- Reform of the House of Lords: lessons for bicameralism -- Meg Russell -- An upper house with snow on the roof and frozen in time -- the case of the Canadian Senate -- Paul G. Thomas -- Upper houses in the Canadian provinces -- David C. Docherty -- Bicameralism in the United States -- Graeme Starr -- PART FOUR: THE AUSTRALIAN STATES -- State legislative councils: designing for accountability -- Bruce Stone -- Reformed bicameralism? The Victorian Legislative Council -- in the twenty-first century Brian Costar -- The embattled South Australian Legislative Council -- Clement Macintyre and John W*illiams -- PART FIVE: THE CASE OF QUEENSLAND -- A constitutional history of the Parliament of Queensland -- Justice B.H. McPherson, CBE -- Illusions of reform: Queensland's Legislative Assembly -- since Fitzgerald -- Janet Ransley -- Abolition and restoration of a Legislative Council -- Queensland and the other states Gerard Carney -- A model upper house for Queensland -- Colin A. Hughes. |
Responsibility: | [edited by] Nicholas Aroney, Scott Prasser, J.R. Nethercote. |
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Abstract:
"This book contains chapters from twenty-one leading international scholars and politicians on the history, the recent performance, and the future of upper houses of parliament in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom."--Provided by publisher
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