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Piccirilli, Giovanni --- "Concluding chapter - Bicameralism as a normative choice in the tension between its reform and its passing" [2019] ELECD 1875; in Albert, Richard; Baraggia, Antonia; Fasone, Cristina (eds), "Constitutional Reform of National Legislatures" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 267

Book Title: Constitutional Reform of National Legislatures

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

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 16

Section Title: Concluding chapter - Bicameralism as a normative choice in the tension between its reform and its passing

Author(s): Piccirilli, Giovanni

Number of pages: 8

Abstract/Description:

Reforming bicameralism does not necessarily mean modifying the structure or the procedures of both the Houses. Elaborating on four national cases (Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Poland and Slovenia), this chapter focuses on the issues arising in the attempt to modify only one of the two branches of a parliament. The claim is that the modification of the upper house implies a change in the fundamental structure of the form of state, the upper house being ‘the’ distinctive feature of a given bicameralism. Finally, as a normative choice, the chapter supports the idea of reforming bicameralism systems instead of shifting to unicameralism, as the former are more likely to provide for instruments of limitations on the tyranny of the majority within the political process.