eprintid: 33992
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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