ETHNO-NATIONAL BICAMERALISM – THE HOUSE OF DISCRIMINATION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND CHAMBERS OF SWISS, BELGIAN AND BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS
ETHNO-NATIONAL BICAMERALISM – THE HOUSE OF DISCRIMINATION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND CHAMBERS OF SWISS, BELGIAN AND BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS

Summary/Abstract: The House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina is expected to be reformed due to the discriminatory constitutional provisions on its composition. This paper will compare the House of Peoples with the institutional arrangements of the second chambers of the national parliaments in Switzerland and Belgium. All three observed federal states treat the representation of their constituent units differently within their second chambers, offering different empirical models to the theory of bicameralism. This paper seeks lessons to be learned from the two Western European examples that could be useful in finding novel solutions for the long-expected reform of the second parliamentary chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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