@article{Ganghof2014,
  author    = {Ganghof, Steffen},
  title     = {Bicameralism as a form of government (Or: Why Australia and Japan do not have a parliamentary system)},
  series = {Parliamentary affairs : a journal of representative politics},
  volume    = {67},
  journal   = {Parliamentary affairs : a journal of representative politics},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0031-2290},
  doi       = {10.1093/pa/gss081},
  pages     = {647 -- 663},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {The article analyses a certain type of bicameralism not merely as a form of legislative organisation, but as a form of government-as a hybrid between parliamentarism and presidentialism. A new typology of pure and hybrid forms of government is proposed, which classifies bicameralism in Australia and Japan as chamber-independent government. This type is systematically compared with other forms of government, including hybrids like semi-presidentialism, elected prime-ministerial government in Israel (from 1996 to 2002) and assembly-independent government in Switzerland. The article highlights how chamber-independent government has the potential to combine different visions of democracy without leading to presidentialisation of political parties.},
  language  = {en}
}