0 (of a parliament, congress, etc.) having two parts, such as the Senate and the House of Representatives in the US --
A bicameral sophisticated voter would vote against any alternative even though his most-preferred alternative is voted down.
In short, we have compelling reasons to expect that the degree of malapportionment in lower and upper chambers varies significantly across bicameral systems.
Bicameral legislatures contain at least one body (usually the upper chamber) the members of which represent geographic territories without regard to population size.
In a bicameral legislature under incomplete information, sincere voting would be no different.
Deadlocks in state bicameral legislatures increased along with corruption and even violence.
I suggested in my article that perhaps the interaction of realignment with bicameral effects produced the reversal.
Between the two effects, some systematic bicameral difference in partisan fortunes is to be expected, and we are not explaining that much of a gap.
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.
