Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments The Initial Decade [Paperback]

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.

INTRODUCTION Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Legislatures: Beyond Transition  Philip Nortonand 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, 19902002  Gabriella Ilonszki  3. Five Terms of the Polish Parliament, 19892005 Ewa Nalewajkoand Wlodzimierz Wesolowski  4. Slovenias National Assembly, 19922004 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, 19942004  l§