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Bicameralism and Policy Performance: The Effects of Cameral Structure in Comparative Perspective
, 2005 This article addresses the relationship between cameral structure and policy performance in the member states of the OECD for the time period from 1971 to 1996.
Vatter, Adrian
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First chamber franchise : a bicameralism fit for small democracies [PDF]
, 2023 First chamber franchise, where a democratically elected first chamber, sitting as the first chamber, appoints members of the second chamber as part of their parliamentary business, is missing from taxonomies of bicameralism both descriptively and ...
Edge, Peter
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Gestión y Análisis de Políticas PúblicasObjectives: In federal systems both the people as a whole (demos) and the statespeople (demoi) need to be represented, be it in a unicameral or bicameral set-up.
Jakob Frateur +2 more
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Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Sometimes politicians must take indelible public stances under unresolved uncertainty about an outcome they cannot control, for example, consider the minority on a proposal that is bound to pass. Counter to the expectations that party platforms converge, and that rational individuals balk at betting against one another, we show this can lead ...
Jorge Fabrega, John Londregan
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Bicameralism and Government Formation [PDF]
, 2004 In this paper we present a structural approach to the study of government formation in multi-party parliamentary democracies. The approach is based on the estimation of a stochastic bargaining model which we use to investigate the effects of specific ...
Merlo, Antonio +2 more
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Riforma costituzionale in Italia: occasione mancata o pericolo scampato? [PDF]
Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2017 The essay analitytically retraces the highlights of a topical issue in Italy over the last few months: the proposal of the constitutional reform presented by the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, that divided the nation between for and against positions.
Giulia CHIELLI
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Confucian Democracy or Meritocracy? Mapping a Two‐Decade Debate
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT The exchange between so‐called Confucian democrats and Confucian meritocrats has become one of the most prominent and sustained discussions within the field of Anglophone Confucian political philosophy. This article offers a thematic overview of these discussions and argues that three main points of contention have so far driven the debates ...
Elena Ziliotti
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THE TRAFFIC IN REPAIRMEN AND A CASE OF GENDER IMPROPRIETY IN POST‐WAR SARAJEVO
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 275-296, May 2026.ABSTRACT In postwar Sarajevo, repair is mainly a masculine activity, and people lean on communal networks to get things fixed under dire economic circumstances. Yet increased numbers of women without men in their households as an effect of the war necessitate the mediation of other women in facilitating access to men's labor.
HALİDE VELİOĞLU
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“Imperfetto perfettismo”: le riforme costituzionali nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra. Intervista a Salvatore Bonfiglio [PDF]
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2016 In the interview sent to Diacronie. Studi di Storia contemporanea on 26th August 2016, the constitutionalist Salvatore Bonfiglio analyzes the operating principles of the Italian institutional system from a comparative point of view between the adopted ...
Salvatore Bonfiglio
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Extra-legislative Functions of Second Chambers in Federal Systems
Perspectives on Federalism, 2018 Discussions regarding the functional design of second chambers in federal or quasifederal systems seem to focus mainly on legislative functions. Thus, extra- or nonlegislative functions related to the executive branch or the judiciary have been rather ...
Happacher Esther
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