Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade (Library of Legislative Studies)

by Philip Norton (Editor), DAVID M. OLSON (Contributor)

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  2009

  $49.48

  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.