New Parliaments of Central and Eastern Europe (Innbundet (stive permer))

What role have parliaments played in the dramatic changes occurring in Eastern and Central Europe? Adopting a common research framework, the contributors analyze in detail the role and operations of parliaments in ten of the new democracies. They focus on what determines their capacity to have some impact on public policy. They identify the significance of parliaments operating in often hybrid systems of government, with the relationship between the executive and legislature not well defined, and with an absence of constraining influence that typify western political systems.

Legislatures in democratic transition, David M. Obson, Philip Norton; democratic parliamentarism in Hungary - the first parliament (1990-94 and the entry of the second parliament, Attila Agh; the legislature in post-communist Bulgaria, Georgi Karasimeonov; institutional development of Poland's post-communist Sejm - a comparative analysis, Maurice D. Simon; the legislature of the Czech Republic, Janica Reschova, Jindriska Syllova; the national council of the Slovak Republic - between democratic transition and national state-building, Darina Malova, Dana Sivakova; a comparative analysis of institutional development in the Romanian and Moldovan legislatures, William Remington, Steve S. Smith; institutional development of the parliament of Estonia, Peet Kask; from Soviet to parliament in Ukraine - the Verkhovna Rada during 1992-94, Stanley Bach; parliaments in adolescence, Philip Norton, David M. Olson.