What is the difference between upper and lower houses in UK parliament and other countries?

Question

I know the lower house is selected through general elections, but what about the upper house?

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Answer 1

The upper house in the UK is the House or Lords. Traditionally it was made up of the hereditary peers, i.e., dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons, plus some archbishops and bishops. These days they’re increasingly “life peers”, meaning they’re appointments for life and not hereditary, but they’re not elected. In other countries modelled on the Westminster system, the upper house tends to be elected in much the same way as the US Senate, often with longer terms than for the lower house and with multiple representatives from larger constituencies. The Australian national government and most of the states are like this (although Queensland has only a lower house).