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.
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 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, 19902002 Gabriella Ilonszki
3. Five Terms
of the Polish Parliament, 19892005 Ewa Nalewajko and 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 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
