Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade

ISBN-13: 9780415495233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 216 str.

Norton Philip

Opis

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.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Legislatures: Beyond Transition  Philip Norton and David M. Olson  THE PARLIAMENTS: DEMOCRATIC POST-COMMUNIST PARLIAMENTS  1. The Parliament of the Czech Republic, 1993-2004  Lukas Linek and Zdenka Mansfeldova  2. From Minimal to Subordinate: A Final Verdict? The Hungarian Parliament, 1990–2002  Gabriella Ilonszki  3. Five Terms of the Polish Parliament, 1989–2005 Ewa Nalewajko and Wlodzimierz Wesolowski  4. Slovenia’s National Assembly, 1992–2004 Drago Zajc  THE PARLIAMENTS: AUTHORITARIAN POST-SOVIET PARLIAMENTS  5. Development of the Moldovan Parliament One Decade After Independence: Slow Going  William E. Crowther  6. The Russian Federal Assembly, 1994–2004  Thomas F. Remington   POST-COMMUNIST AND POST-SOVIET PARLIAMENTS COMPARED  7. MPs in Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Nations: A Parliamentary Elite in the Making  Gabriella Ilonszki and Michael Edinger  8. Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: Divergent Paths from Transition David M. Olson and Philip Norton