...This chapter examines how the politicians elected to Mikhail Gorbachev's parliament in 1989 used the limited powers they had to influence policy through legislation. It looks at the relation between deputies' electoral mandates and their participation in the Supreme Soviet, its two chambers...

...Boris Yeltsin's clash with Mikhail Gorbachev, and then with Ruslan Khasbulatov, over the distribution of constitutional powers had important implications for the parliament of Russia. In particular, the deputies elected to the new parliament introduced rules and procedures on legislation...

...The new Russian constitution and the electoral law determined the general outlines of the structure of the Federal Assembly. The deputies that won in the December 1993 elections adopted specific rules and procedures to govern both chambers of parliament, each of which was organized very differently...

... democratization of parliament and his establishment of a new Soviet legislature that included the Congress of People's Deputies. It also discusses his response to the economic crisis and his economic reforms, his use of emergency powers to address the country's deteriorating political situation, and his agreement...

...Refusing to listen to Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard's advice to stay out of the political arena, Alexis de Tocqueville ran, and lost, for political office in 1837. Two years later, however, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. Despite being politically inexperienced and naïve, Tocqueville could...

...Alexis de Tocqueville came to the Chamber of Deputies with no clear, practical agenda of social and political reform. Although he did not seem to fit the role of opposition, Tocqueville demonstrated a kind of politics that was often countervailing. In his book Democracy in America...

... of Democracy in America was not only due to the pressure of other commitments, including local political life and his responsibilities in the Chamber of Deputies in France. He even suspended his writing for a few days due to fatigue, something he complained to Gustave de Beaumont. Considering what he...

...By the end of the 1990s, Russia had created a parliament that is entirely different from its transitional predecessors, including the Stalinist Supreme Soviet on which they were based. It is less centralized and politically far more important than the old parliaments, and deputies now have more...