Abstract
As long as communist parties have ruled nation-states, little attention has been devoted to their legislatures. A lack of emphasis upon legislative bodies in the study of communist politics has, at least until recently, been understandable; there have been, and still are, strong indications that legislatures in most communist states do not ‘legislate’ in the ordinary sense of the word. Where they come closest to doing so, in Yugoslavia and Poland, their activities appear to have an impact only at the periphery of ‘rule-making’.
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Nelson, D. (1982). Communist Legislatures and Communist Politics. In: Nelson, D., White, S. (eds) Communist Legislatures in Comparative Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06086-3_1
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