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PARLIAMENT SHAPES AND SIZES
Author(s) -
Godefroy Raphael,
Klein Nicolas
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
economic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1465-7295
pISSN - 0095-2583
DOI - 10.1111/ecin.12584
Subject(s) - parliament , economics , ignorance , power (physics) , law and economics , political science , mathematical economics , law , politics , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper proposes a model of Parliamentary institutions in which a society makes three decisions behind the veil of ignorance: whether a Parliament should comprise one or two chambers, what the relative bargaining power of each chamber should be if the Parliament is bicameral, and how many legislators should sit in each chamber. We document empirical regularities across countries that are consistent with the predictions of our model. ( JEL D71, D72)