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- Title
Bypassing Congressional Committees: Parties, Panel Rosters, and Deliberative Processes.
- Authors
Bendix, William
- Abstract
Although scholars have examined committee rosters extensively, no study has considered the relationship between the ideological composition of panels and their participation in bill drafting. I thus ask: Which committees are frequently excluded from legislative deliberations? Does the composition of committees affect the degree to which they contribute to bill development? Using DW-NOMINATE data, I calculate ideological scores for congressional panels between 1989 and 2010 to see whether certain committees are routinely bypassed. I find that moderate panels, polarized panels, and panels with moderate chairs are often excluded, while extreme committees in the majority direction tend to retain bill-writing duties.
- Subjects
UNITED States Congressional committees; UNITED States political parties; IDEOLOGY; LEGISLATION drafting; LEGISLATORS
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2016, Vol 41, Issue 3, p687
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/lsq.12125