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The Constitutional Choice of Bicameralism

Muthoo, Abhinay and Shepsle, Kenneth (2007): The Constitutional Choice of Bicameralism. Forthcoming in:

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Abstract

We take a garden-variety instance of distributive politics-- a divide-the-cake stage game -- and explore dynamic extensions in different institutional settings: (i) repeated play of the stage game in a simultaneous-term unicameral legislature; (ii) repeated play in a staggered-term unicameral legislature; and (iii)repeated play in a bicameral setting of one staggered-term and one simultaneous-term legislative chamber. We are then able to entertain decisions taken at "the constitutional moment" regarding which institutional forms to employ.

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