Committee Assignments in a Nascent Party System
The Case of the Turkish Grand National Assembly
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6299331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabri Ciftci (0000-0003-2002-7035, 226 Waters Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA, corresponding author), Walter Forrest (0000-0001-5817-2807, Northeastern University College of Criminal Justice, 429 Churchill Hall, Boston, MA 02115-5000, USA, corresponding author), Yusuf Tekin (0000-0001-9068-7894, Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi Caractère manquant İktisadive İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Tokat, Türkiye, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 303-324 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0192512107088389 |
| OpenAlex | W2154163316 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 25 |
In the USA, scholars have developed theories to explain the role of legislative committees, but these theories have not been widely tested outside the USA. This ambivalence results from the perception that the strength of political parties in parliamentary systems undermines the importance of other legislative institutions, including the committees. We surveyed members of the Turkish parliament during a period of considerable party-system turmoil to test the applicability of the prominent theories of committee organization (the distributive, informational, and partisan theories) to a parliamentary system. We found strong support for the distributive and partial support for the informational specialization and partisan theories. We consider the implications of these results for our understanding of the role of committees in parliamentary democracies and the study of parliamentary politics
Ambivalence · Distributive property · Legislature · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Test (biology · Turkish · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
Electoral Systems and Legislative Organization
Low-cost policy specialisation, district characteristics and gender. Patterns of committee assignment in Romania
Legislative committees in the Turkish Parliament
Gender segregation in parliamentary committees of Turkey
Defecting alone or splitting together? Individual and collective party switching by legislators
Variation in the Role and Impact of Standing Committees
Explaining Gender Gaps in Legislative Committees
Who gets what and why? Committee assignments in the German Bundestag
Committee Assignment Politics in the Danish Folketing
Party Affiliation and Individual Incentives
Hiding behind the party brand or currying favor with constituents
Committee chair selection under high informational and organizational constraints
Who Gets What? The Interactive Effect of MPs’ Sex in Committee Assignments in Portugal
Constituency Preferences and Assignment to Agriculture Committees
Committee Assignments
Distributing Chairs and Seats in Committees
Personal Ambitions, Expertise and Parties’ Control
Understanding Legislative Speech in the Turkish Parliament
Politics of Constituency Representation and Legislative Ambition under the Glare of Camera Lights
Ethnic violence and substantive representation of minorities in parliament
Due North? Do American Theories of Legislative Committees Apply to Canada
Abandoning Ankara
Understanding Change in Committee Assignments between Elections
A Random Process? Committee Assignments in Dáil Éireann
Constituency Preferences and Committee Selection in the Mexican Cámara de Diputados
The decline and resurgence of Congress
Congressional Government
Party Policy in Modern Democracies
Setting the Agenda
Information and Legislative Organization
Contemporary Turkish Politics
Intransitivities in multidimensional voting models and some implications for agenda control
Veto Players
New Perspectives on Parliamentary Systems
The committee outlier debate
Conclusion - The Consolidation of Democracy versus Democratization in Turkey
Minority government and majority rule
The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets
The analysis of Scottish Parliament committee influence
The Portuguese parliament during the first two decades of democracy
Legislative Organization Theory and Committee Preference Outliers in State Senates
Asymmetric Information and Legislative Rules with a Heterogeneous
Demand-Side Theory and Congressional Committee Composition
A spatial analysis of Turkish party preferences
Being a Member of Parliament in contemporary Turkey
Constituency service in Turkey
Inter-party mobility in the Turkish Grand National Assembly
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |