Due North? Do American Theories of Legislative Committees Apply to Canada?


Autoria(s): Raymond, Christopher; Holt, Jacob
Data(s)

2014

Resumo

Several theories of legislative organisation have been proposed to explain committee selection in American legislatures, but do these theories travel outside the United States? This paper tests whether these theories apply to data from the Canadian House of Commons. It was found that the distributive and partisan models of legislative organisation explain committee composition in Canada. In many cases, committees in the House of Commons are made up of preference outliers. As predicted by partisan models, it was also found that the governing party stacks committees with its members, but this is conditional upon the strength of the governing party.

Identificador

http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/due-north-do-american-theories-of-legislative-committees-apply-to-canada(82c4e215-e525-4686-8dfd-44e33687b7c6).html

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2013.846546

Idioma(s)

eng

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

Fonte

Raymond , C & Holt , J 2014 , ' Due North? Do American Theories of Legislative Committees Apply to Canada? ' Journal of Legislative Studies , vol 20 , no. 2 , pp. 174-192 . DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2013.846546

Palavras-Chave #legislative committees #electoral incentives #preference outliers
Tipo

article