eprintid: 33992 rev_number: 36 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/00/03/39/92 datestamp: 2010-10-15 05:29:25 lastmod: 2020-02-12 15:07:31 status_changed: 2011-05-06 15:39:26 type: report metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Russell, M title: An Appointed Upper House: Lessons from Canada ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F30 abstract: The abolition of hereditary peers' rights will leave the UK with a wholly appointed transitional upper house. The second stage will be decided only after a Royal Commission has reported. This briefing looks at the lessons to be learned from the only other wholly appointed upper house in a western democracy: the Canadian Senate. Experience from Canada suggests that without proper safeguards there could be high levels of cynicism about the transitional appointed house. It will be essential to reform the appointments system to the new chamber, and to ensure that momentum is kept up for the second stage. Despite consensus on the need to change, the Canadian Senate still remains unreformed after a century of debate. This is the first in a series of briefings about lessons from second chambers around the world. date: 1998-11 publisher: The Constitution Unit, Department of Political Science, UCL official_url: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/publications vfaculties: VSHS oa_status: green primo: open primo_central: open_green elements_source: Manually entered elements_id: 43114 lyricists_name: Russell, Margaret lyricists_id: MERUS25 full_text_status: public series: Constitution Unit Publications number: 29 place_of_pub: London, UK book_title: Constitution Unit Publications citation: Russell, M; (1998) An Appointed Upper House: Lessons from Canada. (Constitution Unit Publications 29 ). The Constitution Unit, Department of Political Science, UCL: London, UK. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/33992/1/33992.pdf