Title

Constituency preferences and assignment to agriculture committees

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Publication Title

Parliamentary Affairs

Volume

72

First Page

141

Last Page

161

Keywords

Agriculture, Committee selection, Constituency preferences, Distributive theory

Abstract

© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society; all rights reserved. With only a handful of exceptions, most research examining the impact of constituency preferences on committee assignments in legislatures outside the USA is comprised of single-case studies. This raises the question whether the impact of constituency preferences on committee assignments seen in previous studies apply cross-nationally. Focusing on committees whose remit includes agricultural affairs-because such committees may be particularly sensitive to constituents' particularistic interests-this study examines the impact of constituency preferences on committee assignments in 29 legislatures. The analysis suggests that constituency preferences may impact committee assignments in legislatures around the world, and that this effect varies to only a limited extent according to differences in electoral systems, committee organisation and the partisan consequences of personal vote-seeking.

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