Restraining Elective Dictatorship

by Aroney, Nicholas

ISBN13: 9781921401091

ISBN10: 1921401095

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2008-12-05

Publisher(s): Uwa Pub

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Summary

If Australians, Canadians, and Americans are - like the British - living under 'elective dictatorships,' then how can their elected, single party, 'government machines' be kept in check? That is the key question examined in this book. Restraining Elective Dictatorship contains chapters from 21 leading international scholars and politicians on the history, the recent performance, and the future of upper houses of Parliament/Congress in Australia, Canada, the US, and the UK. The book examines bicameralism (two legislative or parliamentary chambers), the Australian Senate, the international scene, and politics in each Australian state including the unique example of Queensland.

Foreword: The Hon. Bill Hayden, AC	p. ix
Upper houses and the problem of elective dictatorship	p. 1
Bicameralism: Philosophy and Doctrine
Bicameralism and democratic deliberation	p. 11
Bicameralism and representations of democracy	p. 28
The logic of bicameralism: a rational actor account	p. 44
The Australian Senate
The case for bicameralism	p. 67
The Australian Senate and responsible government	p. 81
An Opposition view of the Australian Senate	p. 94
The Senate-some modest proposals	p. 103
The International Scene
Reform of the House of Lords: lessons for bicameralism	p. 119
An upper house with snow on the roof and frozen in time: the case of the Canadian Senate	p. 130
Upper houses in the Canadian provinces	p. 142
Bicameralism in the United States	p. 160
The Australian States
State legislative councils - designing for accountability	p. 175
Reformed bicameralism? The Victorian Legislative Council in the twenty-first century	p. 196
The embattled South Australian Legislative Council	p. 212
The Case of Queensland
A constitutional history of the Parliament of Queensland	p. 229
Illusions of reform: Queensland's Legislative Assembly since Fitzgerald	p. 248
Abolition and restoration of a Legislative Council: Queensland and the other states	p. 262
A model upper house for Queensland	p. 277
Index	p. 293
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