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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... percent of government- sponsored bills have been approved , according to Richard Rose , who regards the Commons as " a house not a legislature " ( Rose 1989 : 111 ) . The chamber plays a significant articulating and legitimating ...
... percent of the chamber's composition for most of the period from 1945 to 1974 ( McKenzie 1955 ) . The source of party control over the Commons was the effective control of national party organizations over party nominations back in MPs ...
... percent of all candidates , and 17 percent of members elected , were not local residents . Nonresidents tend to be more numerous in provincial than in federal elections , ranging between 10 percent in Nova Scotia 42 Congressional ...
... percent in Nova Scotia to 40 percent in Saskatchewan among all candidates , and between 5 percent in New Brunswick to 46 percent in Newfoundland among elected members of the legislative as- sembly . Parachuting is quantitatively ...
... percent in Ontario to 37 percent in Prince Edward Island , 22 44 Congressional Influences on Canadian Legislatures.
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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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