The Electoral Connection and Legislative Committees Academic Article

abstract

• This article examines whether the career needs of legislatorsto be re-elected or to move on to another political postallow us to explain the rules governing committee structures and the committee assignments individual legislators obtain. It uses the institutional variations provided by Argentina, Costa Rica, and Venezuela to test hypotheses about committee assignments and committee assignment mechanisms. It finds that incentives created by candidate selection procedures and electoral rules show some relationship to committee assignments, but with a good deal of variation across national cases and individual careers. 2009 Taylor & Francis.

authors

• Escobar-Lemmon, Maria
• Taylor, Michelle

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF LEGISLATIVE STUDIES

author list (cited authors)

• Crisp, B. F., Escobar-Lemmon, M. C., Jones, B. S., Jones, M. P., & Taylor-Robinson, M. M.

citation count

• 26

complete list of authors

• Crisp, Brian F||Escobar-Lemmon, Maria C||Jones, Bradford S||Jones, Mark P||Taylor-Robinson, Michelle M

publication date

• March 2009

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• The Journal of Legislative Studies  Journal

keywords

• Candidate Selection Procedures
• Electoral Rules
• Legislative Committees

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/13572330802666786

start page

• 35

end page

• 52

volume

• 15

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13572330802666786