Exporting Congress?: The Influence of the U.S. Congress on World LegislaturesTimothy Joseph Power, Nicol C. Rae University of Pittsburgh Pre, 2006 - 248 страница The United States Congress is often viewed as the world's most powerful national legislature. To what extent does it serve as a model for other legislative assemblies around the globe? In Exporting Congress? distinguished scholars of comparative legislatures analyze how Congress has influenced elected assemblies in both advanced and transitional democracies. They reveal the barriers to legislative diffusion, the conditions that favor Congress as a model, and the rival institutional influences on legislative development around the world. Exporting Congress? examines the conditions for the diffusion, selective imitation, and contingent utility of congressional institutions and practices in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the European Parliament, and the new democracies in Latin America and Eastern Europe. These scholars find that diffusion is highly sensitive to history, geography, and other contextual factors, especially the structure of political institutions and the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches. Editors Timothy Power and Nicol Rae place the volume's empirical findings in theoretical, comparative, and historical perspective, and establish a dialogue between the separate subfields of congressional studies and comparative legislatures through the concept of legislative diffusion. |
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... Determinants of Legislative Structure: A Comparison of the U.S. House of Representatives and the European Parliament Amie Kreppel 10 9 Ballot Structures and Legislative Behavior: Changing Role Orientations Table of Contents.
... Behavior: Changing Role Orientations via Electoral Reform Pippa Norris Barriers and Carriers: Legislative Diffusion and the Selective Imitation of Congress TimothyJ. Power and Nicol C. Rae Notes Bibliography Contributors Index ...
... behavior (Mayhew ; Fenno ). In doing so, she speculates whether an extraparliamentary institution (the electoral system) can be manipulated to generate certain forms of legislative behavior, in this case congressional ...
... behavior lie inside or outside of the assembly itself. This issue is highly relevant to agents of diffusion-as-dissemination, and particularly so to the USAID-funded legislative assistance programs, which typically take an intramural ...
... essay makes a powerful argument that one of the principal behaviors we associate with U.S. legislators—constituency service—is causally related to the single-member-district method of electing representatives Legislative Diffusion.
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4 Recorded Voting and Accountability in the United States and Latin American Legislatures | 54 |
5 Limits on Exporting the US Congress Model to Latin America | 82 |
6 The Influence of US Congressional Hearings on Committee Procedure in the German Bundestag | 102 |
7 The US Congresss Modest Influence on the Legislatures of Central and Eastern Europe | 119 |
A Comparison of the US House of Representatives and the European Parliament | 137 |
Changing Role Orientations via Electoral Reform | 157 |
Legislative Diffusionand the Selective Imitation of Congress | 185 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 209 |
Contributors | 227 |
Index | 231 |
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