The Politics of Institutional Choice
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780691057361
Subjects: Central government; Political science & theory; Political structure & processes; Russia (Federation); Politics / Current Events; History & Theory - General; Russia (Federation).; Gosudarstvennaia Duma; Post-Communism; Political Science; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Russia; Legislative bodies; Political Ideologies - Democracy; FederalÂ§noe Sobranie.; Representative government and; Government - Comparative; Representative government and representation; Federalnoe Sobranie; Federal§noe Sobranie.; Gosudarstvennaëiìa Duma
First sentence: THE TUMULTUOUS developments in Russia since the late 1980s have offered a rare opportunity to observe the creation of new legislative institutions-not just once but through a sequence of changes in the Soviet Union to the creation of the Federal Assembly and its two houses.