Rethinking 'rubber stamps': Legislative subservience, executive factionalism, and policy-making in the Russian State Duma

<p>Conventional wisdom views authoritarian legislatures as 'rubber stamps'. According to this model, non-democratic parliaments are entirely subservient to dominant executives, having no influence on the development of policy; as a result, all bills introduced into the legislature be...

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Main Author: Noble, B
Other Authors: Chaisty, P
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
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