Name: Party Personnel Strategies: Electoral Systems and Parliamentary Committee Assignments
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Author: Shugart, Matthew S. ; Bergman, Matthew E. ; Struthers, Cory L.
ISBN: 9780192897053

portada Party Personnel Strategies: Electoral Systems and Parliamentary Committee Assignments

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Physical Book

Author

Matthew S. Shugart

Matthew E. Bergman

Cory L. Struthers

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6x16.5x2.8 cm

Weight

0.64 kg.

ISBN13

9780192897053

Synopsis "Party Personnel Strategies: Electoral Systems and Parliamentary Committee Assignments "

Key party goals serve to advance a policy brand and maximize seats in the legislature. This book offers a theory of how political parties assign their elected members -- their personnel -- to specialized legislative committees to serve collective organizational goals, here known as partypersonnel strategies. Individual party members vary in their personal attributes, such as prior occupation, gender, and local experience. Parties seek to harness the attributes of their members by assigning them to committees where their expertise is relevant, and where they may enhance the party's policy brand. However, under some electoral systems, parties may need to trade-off the harnessing of expertise against the pursuit of seats, instead matching legislators according to electoral situation (e.g. marginality of seat) or characteristics of their constituency (e.g. population density). This book offers ananalysis of the extent to which parties trade these goals by matching the attributes of their personnel and their electoral needs to the functions of the available committee seats. The analysis is based on a dataset of around six thousand legislators across thirty-eight elections in six establishedparliamentary democracies with diverse electoral systems.

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