Constitutional reform of national legislatures : bicameralism under pressure /: bicameralism under pressure. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard Albert (William Stamps Farish professor in law, University of Texas at Austin, USA), Antonia Baraggia (assistant professor of comparative public law, department of Italian and supranational public law, University of Milan, Italy), Cristina Fasone (assistant professor of comparative public law, Department of Political Science, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy).
• Editors: (Law professor), Albert, Richard; Baraggia, Antonia; Fasone, Cristina
• Contents: Foreword / Meg Russell, Bicameralism in an Age of Populism -- Introduction -- 1. 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 -- 2. Bicameralism. Multiple theoretical roots in diverging practices / Maria Romaniello -- 3. 'Visible' and 'invisible' second chambers in unitary states. 'Territorialising' national legislatures in Italy and the United Kingdom / Barbara Guastaferro -- 4. How does the European Union challenge bicameralism? Lessons from the Italian case / Pietro Faraguna -- 5. The scrutiny of EU documents in bicameral system. Opportunity or weakness? / Wouter Wolfs and Caterina Cigala -- 6. The House of Lords faces up to Brexit / Peter Leyland -- 7. Bicameralism in multi-tiered systems / Patricia Popelier -- Part II: Challenging unicameralism -- 8. The shadow of bicameralism in a unicameral state: Dispersed functional bicameralism in Bulgaria? / Mihail Vatsov and Polina Vakleva -- 9. Defending bicameralism and equalizing powers: The case of Peru / Diego Serra -- 10. The failed referendum to abolish the Ireland's senate: Rejecting unicameralism in a small and relatively homogenous country / David Kenny -- 11. Unicameralism and "masked" bicameralism / Cristina Fasone -- Part III: Reforming or abolishing the upper house? -- 12. The Sénat Français of the Fifth Republic: The permanent paradox / Priscilla Jensel Monge -- 13. The future of Poland's second chamber: Is the senate still needed? / Katarzyna Granat -- 14. Reshaping the national council of the Republic of Slovenia / Dušan Štrus -- 15. Bicameralism(s) in the age of ethnicity: Prospects for reform of legislatures in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Nedim Kulenović -- 16. 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 -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 296 pages)
• Subjects: 328.3; Legislative bodies; Constitutional law; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1788978641; 9781788978644
• Related ISBNs: 1788978633; 9781788978637
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 04, 2019).
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