Lords Library Briefing by Heather Evennett. It was first published on Thursday, 27 March 2014. It was last updated on Thursday, 27 March 2014.
Second Chambers
This Library Note looks at bicameral legislatures in other parts of the world and provides an overview of some of the features of other second chambers, and how these compare to the current House of Lords. The Note is intended as a short reference guide, and looks at the size of the second chambers; membership terms; and methods of selecting members. The Note concludes with a brief discussion of the powers of second chambers.
Secondary information
- Type
- Research briefing
- Reference
- LLN-2014-010
- Category
- Lords Library Briefings - House of Lords
- Subjects
- House of Lords Legislatures Electoral systems Powers Membership Reform Upper houses Two-chamber legislatures
- Contains statistics
- Yes
- Published by
- House of Lords Library
- Link
- View this Research briefing on researchbriefings.parliament.uk
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- Timestamp
- 2016-09-21 18:38:24 +0100
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- http://data.parliament.uk/resources/345947
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- Internal location
- http://researchbriefings.intranet.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/LLN-2014-010