"This is a new assessment of the new parliaments that emerged as communism collapsed. The sudden fall of the Soviet bloc stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. The editors of this new volume characterize the newly democratized parliaments as ""parliaments in adolescence"" in their initial assessment (1966). They now face the challenge of chronicling the trajectory of these young democratic parliaments. Whether they survive or not into the third decade, this new text is a critical benchmark in understanding their fates. This book modifies the usual organizational pattern of chapters concentrating on specific countries by the addition of three comparative chapters to complement the concluding one. The concluding chapter compares the post-communist parliaments with the presumptively more established west European parliaments. This book will bridge 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 published as a special issue of the leading ""Journal of Legislative Studies. """
Edited by:
Philip Norton (University of Hull UK),
David M. Olson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.050kg
ISBN: 9780415365574
ISBN 10: 0415365570
Series: Library of Legislative Studies
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 20 December 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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
