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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415495237 ISBN 13: 9780415495233

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Philip Norton [Lord Norton of Louth]: Professor of Government and Director of the Centre for Legislative Studies, University of Hull.

David M. Olson: Professor Emeritus of Political Science, and Co-Director, Center for Legislative Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Co-Chair of Research Committee of Legislative Specialists, International Political Science Association

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415495237
• ISBN 13: 9780415495233
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Norton Philip, Olson David M.