Table of Contents

List of tables
1. The House of Lords and the British constitution
2. The House of Lords in the twentieth century
3. What is the House of Lords?
4. The work of the House of Lords
5. Second chambers elsewhere
6. Reforming the second chamber
Appendix: Party manifesto statements on the House of Lords 1979-2005
Sources and select bibliography

About the Author

Donald Shell is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol