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

by PippaNorris (Author), SamuelC.Patterson (Author), JohnR.Hibbing (Author), ScottMorgenstern (Author), NicolC.Rae (Editor), JohnM.Carey (Author), TimothyJ.Power (Editor), Amie Kreppel (Author), Gerhard Loewenberg (Author), Louis Massicotte (Author)

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  2006

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  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 democracies in Latin America and Eastern Europe. This volume finds that diffusion is sensitive to history, geography, and contextual factors.