When Majorities Fail
Subtitle: The Russian Parliament, 19901993 (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780521030595
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Government - Legislative Branch; Political Science / Congress; Political Science / General; General; Legislative bodies; Representative government and representation; Russia (Federation)
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.