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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... genuinely 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.
... chambers, such as the British House of Lords and the Canadian Senate, the U.S. second chamber does not suffer from a “legitimacy issue” that undermines its authority. The Senate has been directly elected for nearly a century, and ...
... chamber—it has impressive legislative powers. The Senate has real legislative powers because the U.S. states also ... chambers, many (but not all) of which are also powerful in their respective political systems. In American federalism ...
... chamber of debate,” namely a body that serves as the principal venue for political debate and political articulation but which does not play a significant policy-making role in the governmental system. Reinstitutionalizing the ...
... chambers can in certain circumstances reinstitutionalize toward a legislative or transformative chamber once more. The ... chamber during the s, and as we shall see, some tentative steps have been taken in this direction. This ...
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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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