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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... system, Blais, Dobrzynska, and Indridason ( ) showed how proportional ... countries (e.g., Simmons and Elkins ; Weyland ). Globalization ... parliamentary constitutions: both contain the constructive vote of no ...
... parliamentary systems. While most democratic legislative chambers today are in a weak position vis-à-vis their governments, U.S. presidents have to fight for their proposals every inch of the way in Congress and rarely get everything ...
... legislative diffusion in various ways. Following Elkins and Simmons's notion ... countries could develop isomorphic features independently, purely as a ... Parliament (EP) with the U.S. House of Representatives tends in this direction ...
... legislative representation is largely a function of the electoral system, then intramural reform efforts are (literally) misplaced. Although we deliberately posed the concept of “congressional diffusion” as an open-ended empirical ...
... parliamentary democracy, and given the fact that old, consolidated ... systems, and widespread use of English—the Philippines and Liberia—have had ... legislative bodies along the lines of the U.S. House or Senate. Legislative Diffusion.
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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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