Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World

by Anthony Mughan

Book Overview

Nine upper houses are analyzed in this book: the United States Senate, the German Bundesrat, the Australian Senate, the Canadian Senate, the French S nat, the British House of Lords, the Italian Senato, the Spanish Senado, and the Polish Senat. Although about a third of the world parliaments are bicameral, bicameralism has only recently come under scrutiny by political leaders in both stable and emerging democracies. In the United Kingdom and Canada,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814250106
• ISBN13: 9780814250105
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"