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.
... Federal Republic . Hibbing and Patterson , who advance the debate on legislative diffusion by innovating several subtypes of the phenome- non , test for congressional influence on the new parliaments of Eastern and Central Europe ―— but ...
... federal systems, for two reasons. One is that the U.S. Senate, as we noted above, is not a decorative second chamber—it has impressive legislative powers. The Senate has real legislative powers because the U.S. states also have real ...
... ) now use proportional representation to elect their members of the European Parliament (MEPs). But in the EP the two large party groups overlay a complex federal system and still manage to run the Legislative Diffusion.
... federal system and still manage to run the legislature efficiently, while simultaneously expanding its power. The growing alignment of the party sys- tem, federalism, internal institutionalization, and expanding oversight capability of ...
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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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