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Party Personnel Strategies: Electoral Systems and Parliamentary Committee Assignments

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ISBN-10: 0192897055

ISBN-13: 9780192897053

Edition: 2021

Authors: Matthew S. Shugart, Matthew E. Bergman, Cory L. Struthers, Ellis S. Krauss, Robert J. Pekkanen

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Key party goals serve to advance a policy brand and maximize seats in the legislature. This book offers a theory of how political parties assign their elected members their "personnel" to specialized legislative committees to serve collective organizational goals, here known as "party personnel strategies". Individual party members vary in their personal attributes, such as prior occupation, gender, and local experience. Parties seek to harness the attributes of their members by assigning them to committees where their expertise is relevant, and where they may enhance the party's policy brand. However, under some electoral systems, parties may need to trade-off the harnessing of expertise…    
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Book details

List price: $100.00
Copyright year: 2021
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Binding: Cloth Text 
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English