Explaning subnational bicameralism in Russia (exemplified by the Sverdlovsk region)

Объяснение субнационального бикамерализма в России (на примере Свердловской области)

Mukhametov, Ruslan (Мухаметов, Руслан) ()
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Mukhametov, Ruslan (Мухаметов, Руслан): Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Voprosy upravleniya / Management Issues, 2022, 5-21

Abstract: The issue of bicameralism is one of the main research areas in the framework of legislative studies due to the spread of bicameral national parliaments in the world. Despite bicameralism at the subnational level in individual countries, political scientists underestimate this topic. How can we explain the creation of regional bicameral assemblies? This article is devoted to the search for an answer to this question. Post-Soviet Russia with its nine subjects, where the second chambers of legislative assemblies were established, is a kind of natural laboratory to analyze the reasons of subnational bicameralism. To achieve this goal, the author chose the congruence analysis as part of the case study. The congruence analysis involves performing several steps: 1) consideration of several theories explaining the creation of political institutions; 2) selection of a case for studying; 3) verification of the explanatory power of theoretical approaches. The conceptual basis of the research was neo-institutionalism and its main directions – rational choice theory, sociological institutionalism and diffusion theory in particular. The region with a bicameral legislature, which became the object of the research, was the Sverdlovsk region. The article examines the origin of the idea of bicameralism and the establishment of a second chamber in the region. As a result of the conducted research, the author came to the conclusion that the rational choice theory has a weak force in explaining subnational bicameralism. It is shown that the creation of a bicameral regional legislature is the result of the consequences of national historical processes and circumstances. The idea of creating a second chamber was taken from the constitutional projects of 1992-1993 and/or foreign practice of state power organization.

Keywords: bicameralism; parliament; congruence analysis; Sverdlovsk region; neo-institutionalism; rational choice theory; diffusion theory; historical institutionalism; "critical moments"; Eduard Rossel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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