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Legislative Asymmetry

Legislative Asymmetry is a structural feature of federal bicameralism within asymmetric federal systems whereby subnational units possess unequal legislative powers, representation, or institutional capacities in the upper legislative chamber, distinguishing it from symmetric models that afford uniform legislative authority or representation to all constituent units.

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The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets

Barry R. Weingast, William Marshall · Journal of Political Economy · 1988 · 1.5K citations

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Asymmetric Information and Legislative Rules with a Heterogeneous

Thomas W. Gilligan, Keith Krehbiel · American Journal of Political Science · 1989 · 411 citations

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Veto Threats: Rhetoric in a Bargaining Game

Steven A. Matthews · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1989 · 218 citations

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Bargaining in Bicameral Legislatures: When and Why Does Malapportionment Matter?

Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder, Michael M. Ting · American Political Science Review · 2003 · 111 citations

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The checks and balances of party federalism: German federal government in a divided legislature

Thomas Bräuninger, Thomas König · European Journal of Political Research · 1999 · 87 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. CZ
    Carolin Zwilling

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  2. SA
    Steven A. Matthews

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    1 publications · 218 citations

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  3. FP
    Francesco Palermo

    Eurac Research, Italy

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  4. AH
    Angustias Hombrado

    University of Kent, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  5. RB
    Roger B. Myerson

    Northwestern University, United States

    1 publications · 11 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Mannheim Centre for European Social Research

    Mannheim, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    87 citations

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    222 citations

  3. University of Mannheim

    Mannheim, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    87 citations

  4. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    218 citations

  5. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  7. University of Kent

    Canterbury, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

  8. Wadsworth Center

    Albany, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    111 citations

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  1. Regional & Federal Studies

    3 publications · 106 citations

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  2. The Quarterly Journal of Economics

    QJE · 1 publications · 218 citations

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  3. View

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  4. European Journal of Political Research

    1 publications · 87 citations

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  5. American Journal of Political Science

    AJPS · 1 publications · 411 citations

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