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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... bicameral legislature. The U.S. second chamber, the Senate, is as powerful, if not more so (due to its veto over federal executive and judicial nominations and its foreign policy prerogatives), than Legislative Diffusion.
... bicameral legislature , while the modern British House of Lords — even when reformed and denuded of all but ninety - two of its hereditary peers during the first Tony Blair government — is today little more than an occasional nuisance ...
... bicameral systems such as Germany and the United States, but it soon became apparent that the Blair reformers had little interest in creating an effective bicameralism in Britain and were more interested in merely ridding the Lords of ...
... bicameral. The upper house, known as the Council, consisted of members appointed by the Crown or by the proprietor acting on the governor's recommendation. Its functions were Congressional Influences on Canadian Legislatures.
... bicameral legislature composed of an appointed council and an elected House of Assembly. At that time, Nova Scotia was commonly referred to as “the fourteenth colony,” and little in its government belied that expression. In Quebec ...
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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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