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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... democracy is contagious . In com- parative political economy , the burgeoning literature on neoliberalism is now advancing various diffusion - based arguments about the adoption of market- friendly reforms in developing countries ( e.g. ...
... democratic systems . The fact that the U.S. executive , the president , is not electorally dependent on the as- sembly also allows legislators to challenge the executive to a far greater degree than in other advanced industrial ...
... democracy promotion efforts rather than within the domain of legislative diffusion as we approach it herein . But we agreed that even when diffusion is decentralized and uncoordi- nated , we should still be able to identify conditions ...
... democracy , mak- ing it difficult to assess legislative development independently of regime change . Although South Korea and Taiwan are not part of the English - speaking world , their ties to the United States have been strong in ...
... democracy ( Polsby 1968 ) , we should not expect leg- islators elsewhere to morph instantly into U.S. House members . But Norris , and also Morgenstern , suggests that a key institutional lever the electoral system — is fundamental to ...
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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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