| Post-Communist Parliaments: Change and Stability in the Second Decade Contributor(s): Olson, David M. (Editor), Ilonszki, Gabriella (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415560837 ISBN-13: 9780415560832 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Political Science | American Government - Legislative Branch |
| Dewey: 328.4 |
| Series: Library of Legislative Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (0.85 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the end of the founding or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and presidentially-dominated. Whilst in the early years, they had been characterised as parliaments in adolescence, they have - through the second decade - continued to improvise but also elaborate their working relationships with both their chief executives and electorates. This book examines these adaptations in seven parliaments, comparing both among them and with parliaments of west Europe. Their changes are traced through four distinct sets in context, members, internal structure, and working relationship with the executive. This research develops a common perspective for our understanding of both new and developed legislatures by tracing the steps through which new parliaments begin, adapt and become established. This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Legislative Studies. |