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- Title
Presidential Support in the Russian State Duma.
- Authors
Remington, Thomas F.
- Abstract
The article investigates party influence in the Russian State Duma in an endeavor to determine the role of party factions in challenging presidential domination over parliament. The Russian case has many parallels with the newly democratic Latin American countries. The article tries to explain that executive-legislative relations in Russia have in the past been influenced by the mixed-member electoral system, as well as by the characteristics of a president-parliamentary system that requires presidents to bargain with the legislature to enact their program. In the third Duma which was their from 2000 to 2003, President,Vladimir Putin had a slim and unreliable majority among the deputies of the coalition of four factions that he had assembled. Examining the voting records of these deputies shows that some factions consistently supported the president because of an ideological affinity with his program while others yielded to the electoral interests of their members, requiring the president to trade policy favors for their support.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; RUSSIA. Federal Assembly. Duma; EXECUTIVE-legislative relations; EXECUTIVE power; LEGISLATIVE power; LEGISLATION; ZEMSTVOS; PUTIN, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; LEGISLATIVE bodies
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2006, Vol 31, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3162/036298006X201715