Os Senados e a fantasía da representación territorial
ISSN: 1887-0279, 1887-0287
Year of publication: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 1
Pages: 9-27
Type: Article
More publications in: Administración & cidadanía: revista da Escola Galega de Administración Pública
Abstract
After analyzing the two historical forms in which appears the Senate (the British and the North American), the work studies the nature of the federal senates in Europe and America. Based on this study, the paper tries to answer the question whether the representation articulated by these federal senates has a territorial nature or not. Then analyze what are the criteria that allow us to affirm that we are in the presence of a true territorial representation. And all this thinking about the idea of converting the Spanish Senate is what has been called an “authentic territorial representation chamber”, a true myth in reality.