Format:
xix, 296 pages
,
25 cm
ISBN:
9781788978637
,
1788978633
Content:
"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."
Note:
Foreword: Bicameralism in an age of populism / Meg Russell -- The challenge of reforming bicameralism / Richard Albert, Antonia Baraggia and Cristina Fasone -- Part I: Theories and challenges to bicameralism : multi-tiered government systems and the EU -- Bicameralism, multiple theoretical roots in diverging practices / Maria Romaniello -- 'Visible' and 'invisible' second chambers in unitary states : 'territorialising' national legislatures in Italy and the United Kingdom / Barbara Guastaferro -- How does the European Union challenge bicameralism? : lessons from the Italian case / Pietro Faraguna -- The scrutiny of EU documents in bicameral systems : opportunity or weakness? / Wouter Wolfs and Caterina Cigala -- The House of Lords faces up to Brexit / Peter Leyland -- Bicameralism in multi-tiered systems / Patricia Popelier -- Part II: Challenging unicameralism -- The shadow of bicameralism in a unicameral state : dispersed functional bicameralism in Bulgaria? / Mihail Vatsov and Polina Vakleva -- Defending bicameralism and equalising powers : the case of Peru / Diego Serra -- The failed referendum to abolish the Ireland's senate : rejecting unicameralism in a small and relatively homogenous country / David Kenny -- Unicameralism and "masked" bicameralism / Cristina Fasone -- Part III: Reforming or abolishing the upper house? -- The Sénat Français of the Fifth Republic : the permanent paradox / Priscilla Jensel Monge -- The future of Poland's second chamber : is the senate still needed? / Katarzyna Granat -- Reshaping the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia / Dušan Štrus -- Bicameralism(s) in the age of ethnicity : prospects for reform of legislatures in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Nedim Kulenović -- Bicameralism as a normative choice in the tension between its reform and its passing / Giovanni Piccirilli -- Conclusion: What are we to make of bicameralism in the twentieth-first century? : the reform trap / Cristina Fasone
Additional Edition:
Online version Constitutional reform of national legislatures Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2019 ISBN 9781788978644
Language:
English
Keywords:
Europa
;
Verfassungsreform
;
Zweikammersystem
;
Parlament
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Fasone, Cristina 1983-
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