Legislating international organization : the US Congress, the IMF, and the World Bank /
Lavelle, Kathryn C.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Congressional advocacy towards international organizations -- Enacting a multilateral framework for finance : treasury and congressional compromise -- Building constituencies for the Bretton Woods framework : banks, big business, and the Cold War coalition -- Domestic constituencies speak : the end of fixed parity and the rise of development lending -- Iron triangles go global : the 1982 debt crisis and the end of the Cold War -- Widening the circle, narrowing the outcome : the 1997 Asian financial crisis -- Reviving a role for the Bretton Woods institutions : the financial crisis of 2008 -- Conclusions.
International Monetary Fund.
World Bank.
United States. Congress.
Monetary policy.