Exporting Congress?: The Influence of the U.S. Congress on World Legislatures - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822959216 ISBN 13: 9780822959212

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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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Timothy J. Power is University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies and Fellow of St. Cross College, University of Oxford.  He is the author of The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil and coeditor of Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes.

Nicol C. Rae is professor of political science at Florida International University. He is the author of Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress; Southern Democrats; and The Decline and Fall of Liberal Republicans: 1952 to the Present; and coauthor of Impeaching Clinton: Partisan Strife on Capitol Hill.

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• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822959216
• ISBN 13: 9780822959212
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Herausgeber: Power Timothy J., Rae Nicol C.
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