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The success of pluralism in Russia and the other successor states rests on the ability of emerging political elites to become stable institutional influences in the emerging political systems. Nowhere is this more clear than with respect to the institutionalization of national legislatures.
The author is grateful to Sarah Tarrow of the Social Science Research Council, New York, for her assistance in preparing this paper.
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For further discussion of measures of legislative institutionalism see Robert T. Huber, “Soviet Defense and Foreign Policy and the Supreme Soviet,” in Robert T. Huber and Donald R. Kelley, eds., Perestroika-Era Politics: The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev’s Political Reforms (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1991), p. 206.
United States, House Committee on Armed Services, 101st Congress, 2nd Session, Mark Lowenthal, The New Soviet Legislature: Committee on Defense and State Security, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1990), p. 12.
See Michael J. Mezey, Comparative Legislatures (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1979), pp. 6–44.
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Huber, R.T. (1992). The Legislative Process—Institutionalized?. In: Ra’anan, U., Armes, K., Martin, K. (eds) Russian Pluralism—Now Irreversible?. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11917-9_3
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