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The Strange Revival of Bicameralism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Legislative Studies, The, 2014
The turn of the twenty-first century witnessed a surprising reversal of the long-observed trend towards the disappearance of second chambers in unitary states, with 28 countries – all but one of them unitary – adopting the bicameral system.
John Coakley
exaly   +2 more sources

The Politics of Bicameralism

2014
Shane Martin
exaly   +2 more sources

Bicameralism and corruption

European Economic Review, 2010
This paper studies the impact of bicameralism on the level of corruption of elected officials. The relationship between parliamentary organization and corruption is analyzed in a two-period game between legislators, citizens and a lobby group, which delivers several predictions that we empirically investigate using a panel of 35 democracies during the ...
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Bicameralism

1997
This book examines some fifty countries to ascertain how the chambers of bicameral legislatures interact when they produce legislation. An understanding of this interaction is essential because otherwise legislative behaviour in each chamber may be unintelligible or incorrectly interpreted.
George Tsebelis, Jeannette Money
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Bicameral and Auditably Private Signatures

2023
This paper introduces Bicameral and Auditably Private Signatures (BAPS) – a new privacy-preserving signature system with several novel features. In a BAPS system, given a certified attribute and a certified policy P, a signer can issue a publicly verifiable signature on a message m as long as satisfies P.
Khoa Nguyen 0002   +3 more
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Bicameralism

1996
Abstract I set little value on any check which a Second Chamber can apply to a democracy otherwise unchecked; and I am inclined to think that if all other constitutional questions are rightly decided, it is but of secondary importance whether the Parliament consists of two Chambers, or only of one.
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The Passing of Bicameralism

The American Journal of Comparative Law, 1975
Discussion of the topic of bicameralism goes back very far and demonstrates precisely the wrong method of approaching the subject. The classic "Allgemeine Staatslehre" as well as modern comparatists and political scientists try to solve the question from a dogmatic point of view.
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A Theory of Bicameralism

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
We model the role of a parliament's structure in shaping the accountability of elected representatives. In a setting in which lawmakers interact with a lobby through a bargaining process and with voters by means of elections, we show that only a single legislative body who can make take it or leave it offers to the lobby can be held unambiguously ...
Giovanni Facchini, Cecilia Testa
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