Speakers and the speakership: presiding officers and the management of business from the middle ages to the twenty-first century

In the modern period, Speakers and other presiding officers are expected to remain impartial and above party politics; however, this was not always so, andin previous times they acted as key, though sometimes equivocal, government allies in the political management of Parliament. This volume is the first dedicated to the subject of Speakership since the mid-1960s, and offers an absorbing analysis of how Speakers and the Speakership have operated in Parliament inBritain. Composed of papers from a conference held at the House of Commons inApril 2008, it explores the role of the Speaker and the Lord Chancellor in the Westminster Parliament before the advent of democracy, and sets it beside the practice in Dublin and Edinburgh over the same period, and the more recent history of the role both at London and at Washington. It concludes with a fascinating description by the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Boothroyd, of her own tenure of the chair.

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3289-6
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 05/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés