| Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade Contributor(s): Norton, Philip (Editor), Olson, David M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415365570 ISBN-13: 9780415365574 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $188.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Political Science | American Government - Legislative Branch |
| Dewey: 328.4 |
| Series: Library of Legislative Studies |
| Physical Information: 214 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as parliaments in adolescence. This book identifies six parliaments which exemplify the wide range of developments in the new post-communist political systems, from the stable consolidated democracies to the less stable and more authoritarian states, within which their respective parliaments function. Finally the post-communist parliaments are compared with the presumptively more established west European parliaments. This book bridges the usual gap in research between the post-communist parliaments and more normal democratic parliaments to develop a common legislative research perspective on both new and established parliaments. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies. |