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Abeshaus names on Duma Lists
Books about the Russian Duma
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The
Russian Parliament: Institutional Evolution in a Transitional
Regime,1989-1999
As part of the transition from socialism
to a new political and economic system, the parliaments in the former
Soviet Union have undergone extensive changes. Remington (Emory Univ.)
has studied and written about these changes since 1989 in earlier
works such as Parliaments in Transition (Westview, 1994). This new
work shows how those changes have affected both the federal Congress
of People's Deputies and the Russian Federation's parliament.
Alternating chapters discuss Gorbachev's and Yeltsin's jockeying for
position at the leadership level (drawing heavily on game theory as an
analytic tool) and on the changes in the institution's own processes.
The author also covers the drafting of the 1993 Constitution and the
new legislative processes that it introduced.
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The
Politics of Institutional Choice
Events in Russia since the late 1980s have
created a rare opportunity to watch the birth of democratic
institutions close at hand. Here Steven Smith and Thomas Remington
provide the first intensive, theoretically grounded examination of the
early development of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian
Federation's parliament created by the 1993 constitution. They offer
an integrated account of the choices made by the newly elected members
of the Duma in establishing basic operating arrangements: an
agenda-setting governing body, a standing committee system, an
electoral law, and a party system. Not only do these decisions promise
to have lasting consequences for the post-communist Russian regime,
but they also enable the authors to test assumptions about
politicians' goals from the standpoint of institutional theory.
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Comparing
Post-Soviet Legislatures: A Theory of Institutional Design and
Political Conflict (Parliaments and Legislatures
One dilemma facing new or newly
independent states, such as those of the former Soviet Union, is how
to design effective legislatures when political parties are weak and
fragmented or even nonexistent. In this book, Joel M. Ostrow develops
a comparative institutional framework to explain marked differences in
behavior across three post-Soviet legislatures: the Russian Supreme
Soviet, the Russian State Duma, and the Estonian legislature. He
argues that these differences in ability to manage political conflict
can be explained in large measure by the design of the legislatures.
Most significant is the choice of whether and how to include parties
or partisan factors.
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Emerging
Democracy in Late Imperial Russia: Case Studies on Local
Self-Government (The Zemstvos), State Duma Elections, the Tsarist
Government, and ...
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The
Russian Parliamentary Elections of 1995: The Battle for the Duma
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