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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... factor. Mintrom ( ) found similar patterns in his study of school-choice policies in the forty-eight contiguous states. At the level of the international system, Blais, Dobrzynska, and Indridason ( ) showed how ...
... factor in the choices of other governments” (Elkins and Simmons : ). This notion of uncoordinated interdependence automatically excludes “exportation” in the proactive, marketing sense of the term: for Elkins and Simmons ...
... factors and explain legislative development as a function of these. Context is important. It is possible that two legislatures in two different countries could develop isomorphic features independently, purely as a response to their ...
... factors. Latin America is an even better illustration of a disjunction between culture and institutions. Although the cultural roots of Latin America are in Iberia, the institutional roots of Latin America are in Philadelphia ...
... factors associated with this particular reform. Scott Morgenstern argues in chapter that despite the many superficial similarities between the U.S. and Latin American constitutional frameworks, Latin American legislators are in fact ...
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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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