Research Catalog

Title

Exporting Congress? : the influence of the U.S. Congress on world legislatures / edited by Timothy J. Power and Nicol C. Rae.

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Power, Timothy J. (Timothy Joseph), 1962-
• Rae, Nicol C.

Description

vii, 240 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Comparative government
• Legislative bodies > Case studies
• United States. Congress

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Legislative diffusion : can the U.S. Congress be a source? / Timothy J. Power and Nicol C. Rae -- Reinstitutionalizing the British House of Commons : how relevant is the congressional model? / Nicol C. Rae -- So close, and yet so far : congressional influences on Canadian legislatures / Louis Massicotte -- Recorded voting and accountability in the United States and Latin American legislatures / John M. Carey -- Limits on exporting the U.S. Congress model to Latin America / Scott Morgenstern -- The influence of U.S. Congressional hearings on committee procedure in the German Bundestag / Gerhard Loewenberg -- The U.S. Congress's modest influence on the legislatures of Central and Eastern Europe / John R. Hibbing and Samuel C. Patterson -- The environmental determinants of legislative structure : a comparison of the U.S. House of Representatives and the European Parliament / Amie Kreppel -- Ballot structures and legislative behavior : changing role orientations via electoral reform / Pippa Norris -- Barriers and carriers : legislative diffusion and the selective imitation of Congress / Timothy J. Power and Nicol C. Rae.

ISBN

• 0822959216 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780822959212

LCCN

^^2006001961

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library