Speakers and the Speakership
Presiding Officers and the Management of Business from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-first Century
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:12th Feb '10
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This volume explores the role of the Speaker and the Lord Chancellor in the Westminster Parliament before the advent of democracy, setting it beside the practice at Dublin and Edinburgh over the same period, and the more recent history of the role at London and Washington.
- First in-depth study since the mid-1960s of how Speakers and the Speakership have operated in Parliament in Britain
- Includes contribution by the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Boothroyd, describing her own tenure of the Speakership
- Covers practice at Westminster and at Dublin and Edinburgh, and a comparison of Speakers at Westminster and Washington during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Composed of papers from a conference held at the House of Commons in April 2008
“Both of these books contribute much to our under-standing of the history and current practice of the Speakership, and to the way in which well-documented parliamentary questions in the UK as well as across Europe can provide a ready source of scholarly investigation..” (Political Studies Review, 7 August 2013)
ISBN: 9781444332896
Dimensions: 231mm x 155mm x 8mm
Weight: 236g
160 pages