Change in Order to Conserve
Explaining the Decision to Introduce the 1958 Life Peerages Act
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11459119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pete Dorey (0000-0002-5213-644X, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 246-265 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Parliamentary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-2824 • E-ISSN: 1750-0206 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1750-0206.2009.00109.x |
| OpenAlex | W1978689376 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The introduction of life peers in 1958 represented the 20th century's most significant change in the composition of the house of lords, until the removal of (most) hereditary peers in 1999. Yet the 1958 reform was introduced by a Conservative government which was under no discernible pressure to do so, least of all by its own back benchers. Yet the Conservative leadership in both houses of parliament decided to seize the initiative on house of lords reform, partly to enable the house of lords to discharge its political responsibilities more effectively, thereby preventing it from atrophying, and partly to pre‐empt more extreme reform by a future Labour government. Yet having agreed to undertake such a reform, senior Conservatives encountered a range of often unforeseen constitutional and political problems, which ensured that the final reform was actually rather less comprehensive than many ministers had originally envisaged
Conservative government · Economics · Government (linguistics · Order (exchange · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
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