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Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT Legislators sometimes vote on bills that fail but, in the process, allow lawmakers to take an extreme position before ultimately voting to compromise. We call these proposals Cover Bills. Through two survey experiments, we show that primary voters are more supportive of a compromiser if that legislator first votes for a cover bill.
Nicolas Florez, Christian Fong
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The Role of Second Chambers in the Polish and Romanian Political Systems
Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva, 2007 The paper outlines the development of bicameral legislatures, distinguishing between the British and American model of bicameralism. It also seeks to demonstrate the power of second chambers based on the difference between the unitary and federal states ...
Dario Čepo
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Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the effect of electoral system reform on legislative speech‐making by Members of Parliament (MPs), focusing on the case of Denmark's 1918 shift from single‐member districts (SMD) to proportional representation (PR) in elections to the lower chamber.
Martin Ejnar Hansen
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Legislatures and government spending: evidence from democratic countries. [PDF]
In this paper we study the relationship between legislature size with respect to general government and welfare spending. According to the theory, legislature size has an indefinite effect on government spending because logrolling and transaction costs ...
Roberto Ricciuti
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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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Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structures, which are shaped by institutional contexts, may influence the extent to which belief homophily matters.
Keiichi Satoh +7 more
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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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Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue S1, Page 1362-1378, January 2026.ABSTRACT How did policy actors use the European Union's (EU's) political system to achieve policy changes in regulating the sustainability and legality of transnational forest and agricultural commodity supply chains? We qualitatively analysed the development of the new EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free products (EUDR) from actor‐centred and ...
Laila Berning +2 more
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Representing Different Constituencies: Electoral Rules in Bicameral Systems in Latin America and Their Impact on Political Representation [PDF]
This article analyzes the quantitative (mechanical) effects and qualitative (perceptions) effects on political representation of the election of two separate chambers in Latin America’s bicameral systems.
Francisco Sánchez, Detlef Nolte
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The House of Lords Reform: Labour’s Constitutional Holy Grail?
Revue Française de Civilisation BritanniqueAt first glance, the Labour Party, given its founding doctrine, could only be resolutely opposed to the House of Lords. However, the experience of government and the specific features of the British Constitution and political culture have led it to adopt
Aurélien Antoine
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