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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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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals
ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key challenges arising from this turn towards the political inclusion of animals: the Conflict Problem and the Numbers Problem.
David Paaske, Angela K. Martin
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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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“Imperfetto perfettismo”: le riforme costituzionali nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra. Intervista a Guido Crainz [PDF]
In the interview sent to Diacronie. Studi di Storia contemporanea on 3rd August 2016, the historian Guido Crainz explores the most important aspects of the debate on the constitutional revisions after the Second World-War by analyzing the politic ...
Guido Crainz, Fausto Pietrancosta
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Presidential legislative majorities under bicameral congresses have seldom been considered in the literature on coalition cabinets. However, this combination is far from being an isolated or irrelevant topic.
Adrián Albala
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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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“Imperfetto perfettismo”: le riforme costituzionali nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra. Intervista a Carlo Galli [PDF]
In the interview sent to Diacronie. Studi di Storia contemporanea on 30th July 2016, the historian of political thought Carlo Galli analyzes the outcome of the last revision of the constitutional text, recalls the phases and the essential characteristics
Carlo Galli, Fausto Pietrancosta
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Confucian Democracy or Meritocracy? Mapping a Two‐Decade Debate
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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Second Chambers. Bicameralism Today [PDF]
R. C. Tripathi, (Ed.) (2002): Second Chambers.
Kysela, Jan
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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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