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House of Lords Reform Since 1911

Must the Lords Go?

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Peter Dorey

    1. Department of Politics, Cardiff University, UK

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  2. Alexandra Kelso

    1. Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Dorey, Alexandra Kelso
    Pages 1-9

  3. Firing the First Shots: The 1911 Parliament Act and Inter-War Initiatives

    • Peter Dorey, Alexandra Kelso
    Pages 10-55

  4. Labour Learns the Complexities of Lords Reform: The 1949 Parliament Act

    • Peter Dorey, Alexandra Kelso
    Pages 56-86

  5. Pouring New Wine into the Old Bottle: The 1958 Life Peerages Act

    • Peter Dorey, Alexandra Kelso
    Pages 87-115

  6. A Right of Renunciation: The 1963 Peerage Act

    • Peter Dorey, Alexandra Kelso
    Pages 116-134

  7. Crossman can’t Convince his Colleagues: The 1969 Parliament (No. 2) Bill

    • Peter Dorey, Alexandra Kelso
    Pages 135-170

  8. Out with the Hereditary Peers — or most of them: The 1999 House of Lords Act and Beyond

    • Peter Dorey, Alexandra Kelso
    Pages 171-216

  9. Conclusion: A Constant Constitutional Conundrum

    • Peter Dorey, Alexandra Kelso
    Pages 217-228

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 229-243
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About this book

Examines the debates and developments about House of Lords reform since 1911, and notes that disagreements have occurred within, as well as between, the main political parties and governments throughout this time. It draws attention to how various proposals for reform have raised a wider range constitutional and political problems.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Politics, Cardiff University, UK

    Peter Dorey

  • Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton, UK

    Alexandra Kelso

About the authors

PETER DOREY Reader in British Politics at Cardiff University, UK. He has published widely on various aspects of post-1945 British politics and public policy. His previous books include The Labour Party and Constitutional Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions, Policy Making in Britain: an Introduction, The Labour Governments, 1964-1970 and Wage Politics in Britain.
 
ALEXANDRA KELSO Lecturer in Politics at the University of Southampton, UK. She is author of Parliamentary Reform at Westminster, of chapters in The Oxford Handbook of British Politics and Developments in British Politics 9 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and is the principal investigator on an ESRC-funded research project running between 2010-2012 examining the House of Commons select committee system.

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