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Foreword: Bicameralism in an age of populism [PDF]
Despite the importance of second chambers to the success of constitutional democracies around the world, today many fundamental questions about bicameralism remain understudied and undertheorized. What makes bicameral reform so difficult?
Russell, M
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Journey to the Centre of the State: Catalans in Madrid and Scots in London
ABSTRACT In recent years, comparative studies between Scotland and Catalonia have grown substantially, especially those dealing with the territorial embeddedness of these territories in the United Kingdom and Spain. Despite this, comparative research on the integration of Catalans and Scots in the decision‐making of central state institutions is ...
Javier Antón‐Merino
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Bicameralism and majoritarian equilibrium
Recent papers have established that bicameralism can support a non-empty core in majority voting games in two dimensional policy spaces. We generalise this result to the n-dimensional case, and provide a discussion of multi-cameralism.
Brennan, Geoffrey, Hamlin, Alan
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Assessment on the Effectiveness of Romanian Bicameralism During the 2004-2005 Term
The present study proposes an analysis of bicameralism, marking the 2000-2005 term on account of the legislative stability and direct intervention of the bicameral Parliament in the fields subject to law making. The analysis attempts to observe the means
Cynthia Carmen CURT
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ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
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“Imperfetto perfettismo”: le riforme costituzionali nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra. Intervista a Giuseppe Carlo Marino [PDF]
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 ...
Giuseppe Carlo Marino +1 more
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Presidential Messages on Legislation and the Congressional Targets of Lobbying
ABSTRACT Despite strong reasons to expect presidents' announced stances on legislation to influence how organized interests lobby Congress, this effect remains underexplored. I advance a theory that Statements of Administration Policy (SAPs), sent by presidents to Congress to convey their positions on legislation, may also send signals to interest ...
Huchen Liu
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Second chamber - state, mission, perspectives
According to the statistics of the Inter-parliamentary Union, an international organisation which assembles parliaments (representative bodies, legislature) of sovereign states, currently in the world there are 187 parliaments of which 112 have a single ...
Petar Bačić
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Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia Using the QDOT MICRO Ablation Catheter (VT‐MICRO Study)
Catheter ablation is useful to treat patients with ventricular tachycardia. QDOT Micro catheter is a next generation catheter designed to provide more efficient lesion creation with an accurate myocardial substrate analysis. Microelectrode mapping allows detection of higher voltage electrograms compared to standard bipolar mapping and Pentaray mapping.
Antonio Di Monaco +6 more
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The Duration of Caretaker Periods and the Formation of Parliamentary Governments
ABSTRACT In this article, I focus on an understudied aspect of the cabinet formation process in parliamentary democracies: the caretaker periods associated with it. Building on the existing literature on government formation, I discuss conceptualization and measurement of caretaker periods, defined as periods during which a government is no longer or ...
Francesco Bromo
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