All that matters is what Tony wants
John Vincent: Reforming the Lords, 16 March 2000
Reforming the House of Lords: Lessons from Overseas
by Meg Russell.
Oxford, 368 pp., £18.99, January 2000,0 19 829831 5 Show More
by Meg Russell.
Oxford, 368 pp., £18.99, January 2000,
“... to senates is largely the stuff of legend. To see what lessons may be learned from abroad, Meg Russell has examined seven upper houses in modern democracies. Rather oddly, she omits without comment the most powerful upper house in the world, the United States Senate, but her seven examples still cover a wide range. The difficulty is to know how ... ”