The Russian Parliament in 1990-1993.

The project involved the study of socioontological and cognitive models of the Russian parliamentary elite as manifest in parliamentary rhetoric, the character and evolution of political forces represented in the Russian parliament and their relations with the executive. It was a joint project of the Centre for Analysis of Scientific and Industrial Policies, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Department of Politics, the University of Leeds, UK and was carried out in 1993-1994. The project was supported by grants from the Social and Economic Research Council (the United Kingdom, the SERC reference No. R000234454) and the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research. The findings were presented at  the International Symposium on “Presidential System and Parliamentary System in Crisis”, Tokai University Pacific Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 3-6 November 1994,  the International Conference on “The Changing Roles of Parliamentary Committees”, Budapest, Hungary, 20-22 June 1996,  the International Conference on “The New Democratic Parliaments: The First Years”, Ljubljana-Portoroz, Slovenia, 24-26 June 1996 and published in (57) Discourse and Society, Vol. 6, No. 2, (59) Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1995, No. 2, (66) Multipolar Stability after the Cold War: CENSIS-Report-16-96, Hamburg: Center for Science and International Security, the University of Hamburg: the University of Hamburg, 1996, (60) Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 31, No. 3, (61) The Changing Roles of Parliamentary Committees: Working Papers on Comparative Legislative Studies II, Appleton, WI: Research Committee of Legislative Specialists – International Political Science Association – Lawrence University, 1997, as Chapters 7-8 of (54) Russian Politics in Transition: Institutional Conflict in a Nascent Democracy, Aldershot et al.: Ashgate Publishing, 1997, in (63) The New Democratic Parliaments: The First Years. Working Papers on Comparative Legislative Studies III, (Appleton, WI: Research Committee of Legislative Specialists – International Political Science Association – Lawrence University, 1998, pp. 145-170, (79) Institutional Approach to Politics: Parliamentary and Presidential System (Tokyo: Ashi Publishing Co., 1999.