{"product_id":"exporting-congress-the-influence-of-us-congress-on-world-legislatures-9780822959212","title":"Exporting Congress?: The Influence of U.S. Congress on World Legislatures","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eExporting Congress?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eExporting Congress?\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy J. Power\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.22w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822959212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy J. Power is University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies and Fellow of St. Cross College, University of Oxford. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eDemocratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicol C. Rae is professor of political science at Florida International University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eConservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress; Southern Democrats; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Decline and Fall of Liberal Republicans: 1952 to the Present;\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eImpeaching Clinton: Partisan Strife on Capitol Hill.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40414670520435,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":56.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1e97fea0-2067-4a75-8e8c-1ebfbc000943.jpg?v=1662213932","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/exporting-congress-the-influence-of-us-congress-on-world-legislatures-9780822959212","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}