Bicameralism

by Randall Calvert, George Tsebelis, Jeannette Money, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052158972X
• ISBN13: 9780521589727
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"