Fasone, Cristina --- "Conclusion - What are we to make of bicameralism in the twenty-first century? The reform trap" [2019] ELECD 1876; in Albert, Richard; Baraggia, Antonia; Fasone, Cristina (eds), "Constitutional Reform of National Legislatures" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 275

Book Title: Constitutional Reform of National Legislatures

Editor(s): Albert, Richard; Baraggia, Antonia; Fasone, Cristina

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 17

Section Title: Conclusion - What are we to make of bicameralism in the twenty-first century? The reform trap

Author(s): Fasone, Cristina

Number of pages: 10

Abstract/Description:

In today’s world of crisis of liberal constitutionalism, what are the virtues and pitfalls of bicameralism? In other words, to what extent does bicameralism constitute a bulwark against the ‘democratic decay’ or, rather, is it (a small) part of the problem?