Parliamentary Committees in Post-Soviet Countries (1991-2024): Estonia, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine

By Irina Khmelko

This monograph offers a comparative analysis of parliamentary committee systems in post-Soviet legislatures, examining how formally similar institutions operate across democratic, hybrid, and authoritarian regimes. It shows how committee power varies not only with regime type and political culture, but also in response to major external shocks--most notably war and digital transformation, including the growing role of artificial intelligence.

Advancing classic scholarship on legislatures, the book demonstrates how Russia's war against Ukraine and the rapid digitalization of governance have reshaped committee authority, autonomy, and oversight capacity. By integrating comparative institutional analysis with insights from conflict governance and digital institutionalism, the monograph provides a timely framework for understanding legislatures under conditions of crisis and transformation.

The book will be of interest to scholars of comparative politics and legislative studies, as well as policy makers, parliamentary practitioners, and professionals in international development and democratic governance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1036474747
• ISBN13: 9781036474744
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.0"