When Majorities Fail
Subtitle: The Russian Parliament, 19901993 (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 21, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521801126
Subjects: Central government; Russia (Federation); Political Science; Government - Legislative Branch; Politics / Current Events; Representative government and representation; Politics/International Relations; Russia; Political Science / General; Gosudarstvennaia Duma; Russia (Federation).; International Relations - General; Federalnoe Sobranie; Federal§noe Sobranie; Legislative bodies; Representative government and
First sentence: In the spring of 1992, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, deputies in the Russian Parliament struggled to create a constitution that would lay the foundations for a new democratic state, the Russian Federation.