Jurisdiction, Institutional Structure, and Committee Representativeness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340434 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Coleman Battista (University of North Texas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-56 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591290605900105 |
| OpenAlex | W2064681593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 23 |
I model the ideological representativeness of state legislative committees and their majority-party slates, testing hypotheses derived from extant models of committees and institutional choice. Committee representativeness and the representativeness of majority-party slates vary across states as a function of their effective number of parties and professionalization, but the jurisdiction of a committee has little discernible effect on representativeness of either. A possible mechanism is that competitive parties create committees that more closely adhere to the party ratio of the chamber, eliminating many possible outlying committees
Extant taxon · Jurisdiction · Legislature · Political science · Professionalization · Representativeness heuristic · SLATES · State (computer science · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
Committee Specialization in U.S. State Legislatures during the 20th Century
Why Information? Choosing Committee Informativeness in U.S. State Legislatures
The Retention of Expertise and Productivity in State Legislative Committees
Within‐party Allocation of Committee Seats
Instant Credibility
Explaining Legislative Leadership Influence
Majority Party Change and Committee Jurisdictions in State Legislatures
Self‐selection or Socialization? A Dynamic Analysis of Committee Member Preferences
Partisan Stacking on Legislative Committees
Due North? Do American Theories of Legislative Committees Apply to Canada
Committee bias in legislatures with a high degree of party cohesion
Constituency Preferences and Committee Selection in the Mexican Cámara de Diputados
Competing Principals
Information and Legislative Organization
Pivotal Politics
State Legislatures
The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets
Testing Committee Composition Hypotheses for the U.S. Congress
Political Parties as Vehicles for Organizing U. S. State Legislative Committees
Member Career Opportunities and the Internal Organization of Legislatures
Outlying Committees in the Statehouse
Legislative Organization Theory and Committee Preference Outliers in State Senates
Re-examining Legislative Committee Representativeness in the States
Comparing Committee and Floor Preferences
Committee Outliers in State Legislatures
An Ambition‐Theoretic Approach to Legislative Organizational Choice
Uncontested Seats in State Legislative Elections
Asymmetric Information and Legislative Rules with a Heterogeneous
Demand-Side Theory and Congressional Committee Composition
The Committee Assignment Process and the Conditional Nature of Committee Bias
The Institutional Foundations of Committee Power
Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the United States
The Influence of Party
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |