Experts, aliens, and everyone in between
Agriculture committee assignments and sector embeddedness in the Argentine Congress
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13004466 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriel Levita (0000-0003-4378-2076, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 140-157 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2041-7373 • E-ISSN: 2041-7365 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lamp.12248 |
| OpenAlex | W4229377825 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
Agriculture is one of the most important sectors in Argentina's economy. Although most of the time congressional committees play a secondary role regarding agricultural policy, they become crucial in certain situations. In this article, we analyze the political economy of agriculture committee assignments in the Argentine Congress and the embeddedness of their members in the agricultural sector from 2001 to 2019. Conventional wisdom holds that in Argentina—a strongly presidential country with a congress full of amateur legislators and party‐oriented career paths—the standing committee's composition reflects party leaders' preferences rather than constituencies' interests or legislators' backgrounds. Through descriptive analysis and a binary logistic regression, we show that many committee members are in fact experts in agriculture and are highly embedded in the sector, whereas others have no bonds whatsoever. Moreover, constituency preferences have some influence on committee appointments. These findings contribute to understanding better the legislative organization of Congress and the overlap between politics and this fundamental economic sector. They further help to expand the theoretical approach for studying economic committee composition in Argentina
Agriculture · Amateur · Economics · Embeddedness · Geography · Legislature · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Social science · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration
Argentine democracy
Setting the Agenda
Profesionales, amateurs y gremialistas. Trayectorias y entradas a la política de los “agrodiputados” en el Congreso argentino
Export-Oriented Populism
Business Power and Protest
Argentina
Constituency Preferences and Assignment to Agriculture Committees
Committee Assignments
From House to Home
The Electoral Connection and Legislative Committees
Latin America's Reactive Assemblies and Proactive Presidents
Back Rooms or Ballot Boxes
Legislator Success in Committee
Organization of Informative Committees by a Rational Legislature
Amateur Legislators -- Professional Politicians
La representación parlamentaria en América latina. Las comisiones permanentes y los partidos en el congreso
Making Sense of an Unstable Legislature
Oficialistas y diputados
Produção legislativa e preferências eleitorais na Comissão de Agricultura e Política Rural da Câmara dos Deputados
Division or Union of Labor? Analyzing Workers' Representation in the Argentine Congress
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |