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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