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Party Personnel Strategies

Electoral Systems and Parliamentary Committee Assignments

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

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Party Personnel Strategies

Electoral Systems and Parliamentary Committee Assignments

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

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 against the pursuit of seats, instead matching legislators according to electoral situation (e.g. marginality of seat) or characteristics of their constituency (e.g. population density). This book offers an analysis of the extent to which parties trade these goals by matching the attributes of their personnel and their electoral needs to the functions of the available committee seats. The analysis is based on a dataset of around six thousand legislators across thirty-eight elections in six established parliamentary democracies with diverse electoral systems.

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312

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Oxford University Press

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0192651277

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9780192651273

Votes from Seats

Logical Models of Electoral Systems

By: Matthew S. Shugart,Rein Taagepera

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Votes from Seats

Logical Models of Electoral Systems

By: Matthew S. Shugart,Rein Taagepera

Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.

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361

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Cambridge University Press

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1108417027

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9781108417020

A Different Democracy

American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

By: Steven L. Taylor,Matthew S. Shugart,Arend Lijphart,Bernard Grofman

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A Different Democracy

American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

By: Steven L. Taylor,Matthew S. Shugart,Arend Lijphart,Bernard Grofman

Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democratic performance. This essential text approaches the following institutions from a political engineering point of view: constitutions, electoral systems, and political parties, as well as legislative, executive, and judicial power. The text looks at democracies from around the world over a two-decade time frame. The result is not only a fresh view of the much-discussed theme of American exceptionalism but also an innovative approach to comparative politics that treats the United States as but one case among many. An ideal textbook for both American and comparative politics courses.

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392

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Yale University Press

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0300210701

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9780300210705

Presidents and Assemblies

Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics

By: Matthew Soberg Shugart,John M. Carey

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Presidents and Assemblies

Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics

By: Matthew Soberg Shugart,John M. Carey

In recent years renewed attention has been directed to the importance of the role of institutional design in democratic politics. Particular interest has concerned constitutional design and the relative merits of parliamentary versus presidential systems. In this book, the authors systematically assess the strengths and weaknesses of various forms of presidential systems, drawing on recent developments in the theoretical literature about institutional design and electoral rules. They develop a typology of democratic regimes structured around the separation of powers principle, including two hybrid forms, the premier-presidential and president-parliamentary systems, and they evaluate a number of alternative ways of balancing powers between the branches within these basic frameworks. They also demonstrate that electoral rules are critically important in determining how political authority is exercised.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521429900

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9780521429900

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