Gamma-Shaped Bicameral Gallbladder

Bicameral Parliamentary Scrutiny of Government Bills : A

In 1974 J.A.G. Griffith published his Parliamentary Scrutiny of Government Bills, a meticulous study of the parliamentary impact on legislation. Since then little such detailed work has been done. Yet Griffiths' study interpreted 'Parliament' largely as the House of Commons. He included only limited analysis on the legislative impact of the House of Lords, and no analysis of the interactions be...

Neuroimaging, auditory hallucinations, and the bicameral mind.

Bicameral Winning Coalitions and Equilibrium Federal Legislatures

We analyze the legislative interaction of representatives from big and small states in a Bicameral legislature that decides for the allocation of a fixed resource among the states. We assume that the two houses are mal-apportioned and big states are underrepresented in the upper house. We study the effect of this and other institutional features on the relative welfare of big and small states a...

Facchini Cecilia Testa Corruption and Bicameral Reforms

During the last decade unicameral proposals have been put forward in fourteen US states. In this paper we analyze the effects of the proposed constitutional reforms, in a setting where decision making is subject to ‘hard time constraints’, and lawmakers face the opposing interests of a lobby and the electorate. We show that bicameralism might lead to a decline in the lawmakers’ bargaining power...

Bicameral Winning Coalitions & Equilibrium Federal Legislatures

Abstract: I analyze a ‘divide the dollar’ game among Small and Large ‘states’ in a Bicameral legislature where the Upper House represents the regions and the Lower House represents the population. I characterize a stationary equilibrium -as in Baron and Ferejohn (1989) -when the overall probability of recognition of legislators from Large (Small) states is identical in each period. The optimal ...