Resumen de Questions about Legislative Institutional Change and Transformation in Eastern and East Central Europe: Beyond the Initial Decade

Gabriella Ilonszki, David M. Olson

• In the second post-communist decade, post 2000, regional contrasts between Eastern Europe and East Central Europe have become more explicit in legislative developments as differences in communist parties' performance, leadership roles, and country stability and international focus. This broad inter-regional comparison beyond parliaments shows that both original institutional choices and past legacies equally determine the contrast in parliaments' placement between institutional adjustment in East Central Europe and institutional recalibration in Eastern Europe.