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“Imperfetto perfettismo”: le riforme costituzionali nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra. Intervista a Valerio Romitelli [PDF]
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2016 In the interview sent to Diacronie. Studi di Storia contemporanea on 23rd July 2016, the historian Valerio Romitelli presents their judgments about the debate about the constitutional reform after the Second World-War.
Valerio Romitelli, Fausto Pietrancosta
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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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Journey to the Centre of the State: Catalans in Madrid and Scots in London
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 520-534, April 2026.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 at the end of the second millennium [PDF]
, 2000 Preece discusses the history of bicameralism and compares this system with unicameralism and the rarer phenomenon of legislative bodies with three or more chambers, and considers in detail examples of bicameralism in Western Europe, North America and ...
Preece, A. A.
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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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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 133-151, March 2026.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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The Constitutional Choice of Bicameralism [PDF]
We take a garden-variety instance of distributive politics-- a divide-the-cake stage game -- and explore dynamic extensions in different institutional settings: (i) repeated play of the stage game in a simultaneous-term unicameral legislature; (ii ...
Shepsle, Kenneth, Muthoo, Abhinay
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Presidential Messages on Legislation and the Congressional Targets of Lobbying
Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.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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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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Bicameralism and Coalition Cabinets in Presidential Polities: A configurational analysis of the coalition formation and duration processes [PDF]
, 2017 For too long, scholars have studied coalitions under presidential regimes as they did under parliamentarism: assuming that the executive needed to look for allies in only one chamber.
Adrián Albala
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