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Jurisdiction, Institutional Structure, and Committee Representativeness

University of North Texas

I model the ideological representativeness of state legislative committees and their majority-party slates, testing hypotheses derived from extant models of committees and institutional choice. Committee representativeness and the representativeness of majority-party slates vary across states as a function of their effective number of parties and professionalization, but the jurisdiction of a committee has little discernible effect on representativeness of either. A possible mechanism is that competitive parties create committees that more closely adhere to the party ratio of the chamber, eliminating many possible outlying committees.

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 1, 47-56 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/106591290605900105


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