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

 
9780822959212: Exporting Congress?: The Influence of U.S. Congress on World Legislatures: vii
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822959216 ISBN 13: 9780822959212
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Peter R. Kingstone is professor of politics and development and cofounder of the Department of International Development at King's College London. He is the author of several books, including Crafting Coalitions for Reform: Business Preferen

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0822959216
ISBN 13 
9780822959212
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248
Editor
Power Timothy J., Rae Nicol C.