Add to ORKGAbstract. 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 con-siderable 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. W...
drawn from Canon and Stewart (2002). This paper examines the evolution of committee hierarchies in t...
The role played by legislative committees in parliamentary democracies is a rather underestimated to...
Although most of the legislative tasks of the European Parliament(EP) are performed in its committ...
In the USA, scholars have developed theories to explain the role of legislative committees, but thes...
Beyond the immediately visible plenum, parliaments are highly complex institutions. They work throug...
The most recent explanations for the existence of committee systems in legislative chambers have pos...
Although committee assignments have been researched in various parliaments, findings are inconclusiv...
United States legislatures are distinguished by a relatively weak party organization and bipartisan ...
In the European context, committees are the “work horses” of legislatures. Nevertheless, today we ha...
Recent research on parliamentary institutions has demonstrated that legislatures featuring strong co...
The assignment of seats to specialized standing committees is a most consequential choice in legisla...
Recent theoretical work on the US Congress has focused on two different conceptions of the function ...
Theories of parliamentary committees are often contradictory and recent studies have emphasised the ...
Committees are the defining characteristic of the modern legislature. While the centrality and study...
Committees are the “work horses” of legislatures that get the work done. Nevertheless, we have littl...
drawn from Canon and Stewart (2002). This paper examines the evolution of committee hierarchies in t...
The role played by legislative committees in parliamentary democracies is a rather underestimated to...
Although most of the legislative tasks of the European Parliament(EP) are performed in its committ...
In the USA, scholars have developed theories to explain the role of legislative committees, but thes...
Beyond the immediately visible plenum, parliaments are highly complex institutions. They work throug...
The most recent explanations for the existence of committee systems in legislative chambers have pos...
Although committee assignments have been researched in various parliaments, findings are inconclusiv...
United States legislatures are distinguished by a relatively weak party organization and bipartisan ...
In the European context, committees are the “work horses” of legislatures. Nevertheless, today we ha...
Recent research on parliamentary institutions has demonstrated that legislatures featuring strong co...
The assignment of seats to specialized standing committees is a most consequential choice in legisla...
Recent theoretical work on the US Congress has focused on two different conceptions of the function ...
Theories of parliamentary committees are often contradictory and recent studies have emphasised the ...
Committees are the defining characteristic of the modern legislature. While the centrality and study...
Committees are the “work horses” of legislatures that get the work done. Nevertheless, we have littl...
drawn from Canon and Stewart (2002). This paper examines the evolution of committee hierarchies in t...
The role played by legislative committees in parliamentary democracies is a rather underestimated to...
Although most of the legislative tasks of the European Parliament(EP) are performed in its committ...