Too Ideal to Be a Parliament. The Representative Assemblies in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27705-5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27705-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27705-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-27705-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Too Ideal to Be a Parliament. The Representative Assemblies in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989
Original language description
Gjuričová offers a provocative perspective by bringing the neglected topic of parliaments in Communist dictatorships in discussion. Using the case of Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989, she demonstrates that the institution of elected legislatures had formally never ceased to exist, yet in practice, the electoral and legislative process remained under full control of the Communist Party. The paper provides a summary of the Communist doctrine on parliaments and confronts it with the practical aims and functioning of the Socialist „representative assemblies” in different periods, such as in the Stalinist 1950s, during the Prague Spring reforms in 1968, in the perestroika period, and during the 1989 revolution and the democratic reforms. It concludes that Socialist legislatures seemed almost ideal, in fact „too ideal to be real parliaments”.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LTV17011" target="_blank" >LTV17011: „Parliaments in Transition“: Implementing the Czech Innovation in European Research of Parliamentarianism</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Ideal of Parliament in Europe since 1800
ISBN
978-3-030-27704-8
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
199-217
Number of pages of the book
279
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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