Why does the majority party bother to have minority party members on committees
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6298564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hong Min Park (University of Alabama, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 248-264 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Theoretical Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-6298 • E-ISSN: 1460-3667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0951629811429049 |
| OpenAlex | W1987258144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
Why would a generic parliament have committees with minority party members? If the majority party considers minority party committee members a burden, then it could choose to exclude minority party members entirely from the committee system. This, however, has rarely happened in history. In this paper, I provide an informational rationale for the bipartisan committee system through a simple signaling model. I show that, in equilibrium, the majority party on the floor can extract better information and, therefore, enact more preferred policy outcomes by forming committees with members of both parties
Democracy · Parliament · Party platform · Political science · Politics · Single non-transferable vote · Economic Policies and Impacts · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Game Theory and Voting Systems · Law · Public Administration
Committees in Congress
Information and Legislative Organization
The Theory of Incentives
Strategic Information Transmission
The Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Discounting or with Incomplete Information
Asymmetric Information and Legislative Rules with a Heterogeneous
Asymmetric Information and Legislative Rules
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |