Unicameral and Bicameral Legislatures

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Explain the differences in between unicameral and bicameral legislatures. What are their virtues and vices?
Introduction
For years, countries have had different legislatures bicameral and unicameral. The features of each legislatures are distinct from one another. It even accounts to various vices and virtues. Both legislatures exist in various countries in the world. The reason to which varies in each place. Legislatures are essential for a society to perform politically well. However, the political structure of every nations varies thus, there exist no simple generalization. The structural arrangements of different legislatures are distinct in relation to their number of chambers available. (Danziger, J. N. (1996))
Unicameralism
Smaller nations and most parliaments follow unicameralism which consists of a single chamber. For example, New Zealand, Nordic countries such as Denmark, Iceland and Finland are unicamerals as well. [Arter 1984, 16-22 and Damgard 1992 ](Patterson, S. C., & Mughan, A. (1999) 3). This is most likely due to the fact that balance of political conflict is prevalent in smaller countries. Thus, it’s relatively more efficient to solve political issues thereby choosing unicameralism. (Mahler, Gregory S. 2008) Examples of unicameralism can be found in China, South Korea, Greece, Israel, Kenya and New Zealand. (Danziger, J. N. (1996)) (163)
Legislatures have changed bicameralism to unicameralism. For example, the elimination of upper chambers in Denmark. China is also a very large unicameral assembly through the national people’s congress.
Formation/composition of the houses, underlying reasons
Unicameral is one house which undergoes all the legislative procedures by one house only. On the other hand, bicamerali...

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