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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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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Provocări actuale privind camerele superioare parlamentare (Contemporary Challenges Regarding the Superior Chambers of Parliaments) [PDF]
Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2015 This article highlights the importance of initiating debates concerning upon the place and the role of the Upper Chamber in Romania. There are underlined the main challenges to which the Romanian Constitution review has to provide concrete answers over ...
Marian POPA
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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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The Austrian Bundesrat – Imperfect and Unreformed
Perspectives on Federalism, 2018 According to many legal and political scientists the Austrian Bundesrat is generally considered to be a paradigmatic example of a politically and legally weak second chamber embedded in a strongly centralised federal system.
Bußjäger Peter
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Cervical lymphadenopathy as initial presentation of metastatic prostate cancer: A retrospective study of five cases and literature review. [PDF]
Front Surg, 2023 Liu Y, Dai Z, Hao J, Wang L, Liu Z.
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BICAMERALISM AS A TOOL FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN UKRAINE
Baltic Journal of Economic StudiesThe development of parliamentarism in Ukraine is particularly important for restoring the constitutional balance of power between the different branches of government and returning leadership of the main areas of state building to the Supreme Council of
Hanna Trushevych +2 more
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“Imperfetto perfettismo”: le riforme costituzionali nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra. Intervista a Giuseppe Carlo Marino [PDF]
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2016 In the interview sent to Diacronie. Studi di Storia contemporanea on 18th August 2016, the historian Giuseppe Carlo Marino recalls the basic aspects of the italian political contemporary history by focusing on the institutional dynamics that have to do ...
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Beneficium, 2019 The article discusses the evolution of bicameral legislatures of the British Commonwealth Countries in the twentieth century in the context of transforming the British Empire and the world experience of refusing or reducing the role of the Upper Houses ...
Elena A. Makarova / Елена А. Макарова
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Polarization, diversity, and democratic robustness. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Bednar J.
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