Post-Communist Parliaments - Change and Stability in the Second Decade

Informationen zum Autor David M. Olson is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Legislative Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Gabriella Ilonszki is Professor of Political Science at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Klappentext This book examines how over the last twenty years two basic types of post-communist parliaments have persisted, with underlying changes in their party systems, and how they function in practice. This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Legislative Studies. Zusammenfassung This book examines how over the last twenty years two basic types of post-communist parliaments have persisted, with underlying changes in their party systems, and how they function in practice. This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Legislative Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Introduction 1. Questions about Legislative Institutional Change and Transformation in Eastern and East Central Europe: Beyond the Initial Decade Gabriella Ilonszki and David M. Olson Part 2: The Parliaments 2. Central European Parliaments over Two Decades – Diminishing Stability? Parliaments in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia Zdenka Mansfeldová 3. Second Decade, Second Chance? Parliament, Politics and Democratic Aspirations in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova William E. Crowther Part 3: Post-Communist Parliaments Compared 4. Negative Agenda Control and Executive–Legislative Relations in East Central Europe, 1997–2008 Radoslaw Zubek 5. Internal Organisation of Post-Communist Parliaments over Two Decades: Leadership, Parties, and Committees Irina S. Khmelko 6. Interest Representation and Post-Communist Parliaments over Two Decades Danica Fink-Hafner Part 5: Conclusion 7. Two Decades of Divergent Post-Communist Parliamentary Development David M. Olson and Gabriella Ilonszki ...

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• Authors: David M. Ilonszki Olson
• Assisted by: Gabriella Ilonszki (Editor), Ilonszki Gabriella (Editor), David M Olson (Editor), Olson David M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2011
• EAN: 9780415560832
• ISBN: 978-0-415-56083-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Library of Legislative Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Regional Studies, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Regional / International studies, Regional Geography, Marxism & Communism