The World Bank's president has been an American by tradition. Yet little work has explored the consequences for this connection in influencing visions of development in the organization across time. This paper uses evidence from archives, congressional hearing records, and memoirs and histories...

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...