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The challenge of reforming bicameralism

Richard Albert, Antonia Baraggia and Cristina Fasone

Bicameralism is under pressure in every corner of the world. From North to South America, from Australia to Africa, and from Asia to Europe, there are some signs of success, yet perhaps more of failure, in efforts to reform bicam¬eralism to respond to the modern expectations of democracy.

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Cover Constitutional Reform of National Legislatures

In Constitutional Reform of National Legislatures

Edited by Richard Albert, Antonia Baraggia and Cristina Fasone

Published:: 30 August 2019

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978644.00006

Collection: Law 2019

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Comparative Government

Dragoljub Popović

Concise and clear in expression, Comparative Government covers contemporary systems of government, as well as relics of the past, in an excellent introduction to the profound study of comparative constitutional law. Dragoljub Popović has undertaken this task to display the subject in its current stage of development, concentrating on several focal points.

Monograph Book

Published:: 30 August 2019

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900750

Collection: Law 2019

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Conclusion - What are we to make of bicameralism in the twenty-first century? The reform trap

Cristina Fasone

In today’s world of crisis of liberal constitutionalism, what are the virtues and pitfalls of bicameralism? In other words, to what extent does bicameralism constitute a bulwark against the ‘democratic decay’ or, rather, is it (a small) part of the problem?

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In Constitutional Reform of National Legislatures

Edited by Richard Albert, Antonia Baraggia and Cristina Fasone

Published:: 30 August 2019

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978644.00025

Collection: Law 2019

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Constitutional Reform of National Legislatures

Bicameralism under Pressure

Edited by Richard Albert, Antonia Baraggia and Cristina Fasone

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? Why choose bicameralism over unicameralism? What are the constitutional values of bicameralism? This innovative book addresses these questions and many more from comparative, doctrinal, empirical, historical and theoretical perspectives.