In the US it is pretty straight forward you either clear the aicraft for the approach with the vector, or clear the aircraft to intercept the locilizer and maintain an altitude. We use both depending on circumstances. We do not expect a pilot to report established unless asked to report established during the clearance. A lot of foriegn airline pilots report all the time and we just say roger.
"[aircraft] xx miles from [outer marker] fly heading xxx join the runway xx locilizer maintain xxxx until established cleared runway xx ils approach"
"[aircraft] fly heading xxx join the runway xx locilizer maintain xxxx"
An example of when we use the later is the SFO runway 19L ILS, we vector aircraft to join between berks and shake. If we issued the approach clearance with the vector the aircraft could descend to 2900 as soon as they capture the localizer. The OAK 11 ILS is right under the SFO 19L ILS, Aircraft cross ALCAT at or above 2900. In that situation the SFO arrival is restricted above the OAK arrival until the aircraft cross courses or the OAK arrival decends past Plaza.
http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0713/00375IL19L.PDF
http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0713/00294I11.PDF