Going once, going twice, sold! The committee assignment process as an all-pay auction

Lee, Dong Hoon

doi:10.1007/s11127-007-9256-8

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“…Our variable Adjusted ADA Distance gauges the distance between the score associated with the most ideologically extreme member of the political party of successful candidates and their own ADA score, 4 as adjusted by Anderson and Habel (2009). Being a measure of conformity to the overall voting of each individual MC to the votes of other members of their own party, this variable controls for party loyalty, which has been identified by scholars as an important determinant of both committee assignment (Lee 2008; Leighton and Lopez 2002) and length of political career (Theriault 1998). Finally, we create a dummy variable called Region South coded 1 for all states in the Southern Region 5 of the United States and 0 otherwise, in order to account for the particularities of the American South.…”

Section: Variables and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Career Length and Service of Female Policymakers in the US House of Representatives

Praino¹,

Stockemer

2016

Gov. & oppos.

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Various studies have outlined the institutional (e.g. the existence of quota laws and the electoral system type of a country) and non-institutional factors (e.g. the political culture of a country) that account for variation in women’s representation, in general, and, in more detail, the low representation of women in the US Congress. However, no study has, so far, compared the Congressional career paths of men and women in order to understand whether this gender gap in representation stems from a difference in terms of the duration and importance of the careers of male and female policymakers. Using data on all US House elections between 1972 and 2012, we provide such an analysis, evaluating whether or not the political careers of women in the US House of Representatives are different from the political careers of their male counterparts. Our findings indicate that the congressional careers of men and women are alike and, if anything, women may even have a small edge over their male colleagues.

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Section: Variables and Datamentioning

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The Career Length and Service of Female Policymakers in the US House of Representatives

Praino¹,

Stockemer

2016

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“…5. Electoral motivation is a strong theme running through the literature on committee assignments and preference outliers (Adler, 2000;Benson, 1983;Cowart, 1981;Frisch & Kelly, 2004Groseclose, 1994;Hall & Grofman, 1990;Hurwitz, Moiles, & Rohde, 2001;Krehbiel, 1990;Lee, 2008;Londregan & Snyder, 1994;Maltzman, 1995;Niskanen, 1971;Parker, Parker, Copa, & Lawhorn, 2004;Rohde & Shepsle, 1973;Sprague, 2008;Weingast & Marshall, 1987;Young & Heitshusen, 2003). 6.…”

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Precongressional Careers and Committees: The Impact of Congruence

Francis

Bramlett

2017

American Politics Research

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We explore the impact that precongressional careers have on the behavior of new members in the U.S. House of Representatives. Does a former doctor act differently in the House than a former state legislator, lawyer, or businesswoman? Is the former doctor more productive as a new member if assigned to a committee that utilizes his or her perceived and actual experiences in the medical field? We posit that new members who are assigned to committees that align with their career experiences are more active legislators and obtain legislative expertise more quickly than other new members of Congress (MCs), with implications for their future political ambition. To explore these claims, we collected an extensive dataset of the precongressional career experiences of first and second term MCs from the 101st-113th Congresses (1989-2014), their committee assignments, legislative activity, and political ambition. We find that MCs with career-committee congruence have a legislative advantage compared with other new MCs, influencing their transition and trajectory in Congress. Many MCs matched with the right committee are more likely to introduce legislation in their policy area. In addition, we provide some evidence that MCs obtain committee leadership positions more often than their peers without the same early advantage.

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“…Attractive assignments, for example to highly visible committees, offer good opportunities to provide constituency services, to shape policy outcomes, to publicize political activities, and to increase political influence (Rohde & Shepsle, 1973;Kanthak, 2004). Since attractive committee positions are a scarce resource (Rohde & Shepsle, 1973;Munger, 1988), an excess demand for valuable committee seats always exists (Lee, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some researchers have focused on the MPs' requests for particular committees (Rohde & Shepsle, 1973). That approach is problematic since publicly uttered committee requests represent strategic and not sincere representations of real MP preferences (Lee, 2008). In addition, researchers have compared the location of committees' median voter with the floor or the party in order to establish whether some committees are indeed staffed with more extreme outsiders (Kreh biel, 1990; Maltzman, 1995Maltzman, , 1997.…”

Section: Research Design and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%