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BICAMERAL | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
He argues for electoral rules which guarantee a measure of proportional representation, coalition governments, an empowered and truly bicameral legislature, decentralization.
It's a bicameral organization where the public and private sectors share voting power -- and a business-first, regulation-averse philosophy of government reigns above all else.
Both elect chief executives to four-year terms (governor-general is the island's top office), balancing power against a bicameral legislature in which the same two parties jostle perennially for control.
Sunday's election for a bicameral national parliament and 14 regional assemblies, the military-ruled country's first polls in 20 years, is not expected to bring any quick fix.
From this perspective, then, state legislative malapportionment was a temporary political reality not fundamentally related to the choice of a bicameral legislature.
The difference between the two constitutional systems is also reflected by small parties gaining more bargaining power in bicameral, parliamentary systems than in presidential ones.
And bicameral divided government, during this period, was produced largely by the difference between equal and proportional representation, along with the effect of staggered elections.
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