عنوان

Bicameralism /

0511609353

0521580374

9780511609350

9780521580373

b746313

Bicameralism /

[Book]

George Tsebelis, Jeannette Money.

Cambridge :

Cambridge University Press,

1997.

1 online resource (268 pages)

Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

Electronic book.

Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011).

This book examines some fifty countries to ascertain how the chambers of bicameral legislatures interact when they produce legislation. An understanding of this interaction is essential because otherwise legislative behaviour in each chamber may be unintelligible or incorrectly interpreted. The book employs cooperative game theoretic models to establish that bicameral legislatures, when compared with unicameral legislatures, increase the stability of the status quo and reduce intercameral differences to one privileged dimension of conflict. Non-cooperative game theoretic models are used to investigate the significance of a series of insitutional devices used to resolve intercameral conflict where a bill is introduced, which chamber has the final word, how many times a bill can shuttle between chambers, and whether conference committees are called. Empirical evidence, mainly from the French Republic, is used to evaluate the arguments.

9780521580373

Legislative bodies.

Bicamérisme.

Legislative bodies.

Tweekamerstelsel.

Money, Jeannette.

Tsebelis, George.

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[Book]

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