Smith / Remington The Politics of Institutional Choice

The Formation of the Russian State Duma
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2394-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Steven S. Smith is a McKnight University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The American Congress and Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate. He has coauthored Committees in Congress, Managing Uncertainty in the House of Representatives, and Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate. Thomas F. Remington is Claus M. Halle Distinguished Professor for Global Learning at Emory University. His books include Politics in Russia, Parliaments in Transition, The Truth of Authority: Ideology and Communication in the Soviet Union, and Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Steven S.

Remington, Thomas F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vi

List of Tables vii

Preface ix

List of Abbreviations xi

ONE: Choosing legislative Institutions in Russia 3

TWO: Forming a Parliamentary Party System 27

THREE: Creating the Council of the Duma 54

FOUR: Setting a Framework for Party-Committee Relations 72

FIVE: Choosing an Electoral System 93

SIX: Party Discipline in the Russian Duma 116

SEVEN: Institutional Choice 137

Appendix on Data and Methods 161

References 169

Index 177

Über Autor(innen)

Steven S. Smith is a McKnight University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The American Congress and Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate. He has coauthored Committees in Congress, Managing Uncertainty in the House of Representatives, and Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate.

Thomas F. Remington is Claus M. Halle Distinguished Professor for Global Learning at Emory University. His books include Politics in Russia, Parliaments in Transition, The Truth of Authority: Ideology and Communication in the Soviet Union, and Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia.