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When majorities fail : the Russian Parliament, 1990-1993 /
"When Majorities Fail is a study of institutional failure in Russia's first democratic legislature. Inadequate rules and a chaotic party system combined to make it nearly impossible to pass a coherent legislative program, including a new constitution. The peculiar form of internal instabil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Political economy of institutions and decisions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "When Majorities Fail is a study of institutional failure in Russia's first democratic legislature. Inadequate rules and a chaotic party system combined to make it nearly impossible to pass a coherent legislative program, including a new constitution. The peculiar form of internal instability in Russia's parliament is known as cycling, one of the most important theoretical concepts in the formal study of legislatures. There are few recorded cases of cycling in politically important settings: this book documents, with comprehensive case analyses and exhaustive statistical analyses of roll call data, the presence of cyclical majorities in the Russian Parliament, and it demonstrates how the resulting failure to adopt a new constitution led directly to the violent confrontation between parliament and president in the fall of 1993. Earlier theoretical work has shown that the design of a legislative institution is crucial in preventing a breakdown in majority rule. In this study, the author shows how the institutional design of the parliament failed to prevent cycling, underscoring the importance of institutional design in a democratic transition."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780521801126 0521801125 0511041403 9780511041402 9780511510601 0511510608 9780511047541 0511047541 0511148739 9780511148736 9786610430352 6610430357 9780521030595 0521030595 |