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  • Democratic Legislative Institutions: A Comparative View

    A Comparative View

    by David M. Olson ...
    This text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The New Parliaments of Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Philip Norton, David M. Olson ...
    What role have parliaments played in the dramatic changes occurring in Eastern and Central Europe? Adopting a common research framework, the contributors analyse 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 ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments

    The Initial Decade

    Edited by Philip Norton, David M. Olson ...
    Series series Library of Legislative Studies
    The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as "parliaments in adolescence".This book identifies six parliaments which exemplify the wide range of developments in the new post-communist political systems, from the stable consolidated ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Post-Communist Parliaments

    Change and Stability in the Second Decade

    Edited by David M. Olson, Gabriella Ilonszki ...
    Series series Library of Legislative Studies
    At the end of the "founding" or initial decade, the new parliaments of post-Communist Europe had developed two distinct types: democratic and presidentially-dominated. Whilst in the early years, they had been characterised as "parliaments in adolescence," they have - through the second decade - continued to improvise but also elaborate their working relationships with both their chief executives ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Power, Politics, and Institutional Design

    by Paul D'Anieri ...
    Ukraine made headlines around the world during the winter of 2004-05 as the colorful banners of the Orange Revolution unfurled against the snowy backdrop of Kyiv, signaling the bright promise of democratic rebirth. But is that what is really happening in Ukraine? In the early post-Soviet period, Ukraine appeared to be firmly on the path to democracy. The peaceful transfer of power from Leonid ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Federalism and Local Politics in Russia

    Edited by Cameron Ross, Adrian Campbell ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    This book examines federalism and regional and local politics in Russia.Many commentators have alluded to the unique nature of Russia's dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity. But there is in fact a third transition under way in Russia that is of no less importance, the need to reconfigure central-local relations and to create a stable and viable ... Read more

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  • China and Africa

    Engagement and Compromise

    by Ian Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    With China’s rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and China have been escalating at an astonishing rate. Sino-African relations are set to become an increasingly significant feature of world politics as China’s hunger for energy resources grows and many African countries seek a partner that, unlike the West, does not worry about democracy and transparency, or ... Read more

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  • Party Politics in Post-communist Russia

    Edited by John Lowenhardt ...
    Political parties are the fabric of democratic politics. In 1991 a new Russia emerged after seven decades of one-party dictatorship, claiming to be on the road towards democracy. In this volume the authors analyse the many contradictions, dilemmas, and paradoxes of reconstituting free party politics and democratic rule in a severely traumatized country. Frequently from a comparative perspective ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Power and Policy in Putin’s Russia

    Edited by Richard Sakwa ...
    Series series Routledge Europe-Asia Studies
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  • The Future of Europe

    Integration and Enlargement

    Edited by Fraser Cameron ...
    In 2004, the European Union's Intergovernmental Conference finalized the historic process of enlarging the EU from fifteen to twenty-five members. This book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the state of the European Union's biggest enlargement so far, and also considers its future prospects in several key areas. It explains why the ten applicant countries wanted to join the EU and ... Read more

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  • Genocide and the Europeans

    by Karen E. Smith ...
    Genocide is one of the most heinous abuses of human rights imaginable, yet reaction to it by European governments in the post-Cold War world has been criticised for not matching the severity of the crime. European governments rarely agree on whether to call a situation genocide, and their responses to purported genocides have often been limited to delivering humanitarian aid to victims and ... Read more

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  • Elusive Refuge

    Chinese Migrants in the Cold War

    by Laura Madokoro ...
    The 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution is a subject of inexhaustible historical interest, but the plight of millions of Chinese who fled China during this tumultuous period has been largely forgotten. Elusive Refuge recovers the history of China’s twentieth-century refugees. Focusing on humanitarian efforts to find new homes for Chinese displaced by civil strife, Laura Madokoro points out a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD