Legislative Networks and Reforms in Post-Soviet States

This book presents the legislative networks in charge of drafting democratic reforms as gatekeepers to the actual adoption implementation and internalisation of democratic norms in selected post-Soviet countries.It demonstrates that the composition of legislative networks which draft the legal reforms in Armenia Georgia and Moldova is controlled by powerful political actors who seek to have their preferences reflected in the reform outcomes. Furthermore the book shows that there are limited modifications after the adoption of the first draft by these legislative networks despite the later reform stages being the focus of the existing literature. The book’s analysis of political reforms in the Rule of Law Inter-institutional and electoral accountability in these three countries identifies the control strategies used by domestic political elite to restrain the space for democratisation while instrumentalising the institutional framework to increase its power.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of democratisation post-Soviet studies East European politics EU politics and policy comparative politics and international relations.