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Party and Personal Preference in Post-Soviet Legislatures
Initial studies of post-Soviet legislative behavior have concluded that parties can affect legislative behavior; however, the methods used by these studies failed to distinguish between the effects of party and personal preferences. Evidence of party effects would be surprising given not only the perceived weaknesses of post-Soviet political parties, but also the debate on the existence of party effects in the U.S. Congress literature. Copyright (c) 2004 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.