dc.contributor.author | McElroy, Gail | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-01T06:03:00Z | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-29T22:43:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-29T22:43:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/22894 | |
dc.description.abstract | The European Parliament (EP) possesses a highly specialized committee system, operating in a complex institutional and political environment, yet little empirical work has investigated how MEPs are assigned to EP committees and what consequences this process has for representation and policy-making. In this article I examine the growth of EP committees and committee membership since 1979, and address the question of whether these committees are representative of the EP as a whole. Using an original data set of committee membership, national and EP party affiliation, MEP characteristics, and MEP policy preferences derived from roll-call votes, I address three key questions: Does committee membership reflect the party group composition of the EP? Do committee members possess specialized expertise in their committees’ policy areas? And, finally, do committee members’ general or committee-specific policy preferences differ substantially from those of the overall Parliament? The results suggest very strongly that, although committee members do tend to possess policy-specific expertise, committees are, nonetheless, highly representative of the EP as a whole, in terms of both party and policy representation. | en |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Politikwissenschaft | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Political science | en |
dc.subject.other | committees; European Parliament; preference outliers; | |
dc.title | Committee Representation in the European Parliament | en |
dc.description.review | begutachtet (peer reviewed) | de |
dc.description.review | peer reviewed | en |
dc.source.journal | European Union Politics | de |
dc.source.volume | 7 | de |
dc.publisher.country | GBR | |
dc.source.issue | 1 | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture | en |
dc.subject.classoz | Europapolitik | de |
dc.subject.classoz | European Politics | en |
dc.subject.classoz | politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur | de |
dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-228941 | de |
dc.date.modified | 2011-05-04T14:44:00Z | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | en |
ssoar.gesis.collection | SOLIS;ADIS | de |
ssoar.contributor.institution | http://www.peerproject.eu/ | de |
internal.status | 3 | de |
dc.type.stock | article | de |
dc.type.document | journal article | en |
dc.type.document | Zeitschriftenartikel | de |
dc.rights.copyright | f | de |
dc.source.pageinfo | 5-29 | |
internal.identifier.classoz | 10504 | |
internal.identifier.classoz | 10506 | |
internal.identifier.journal | 126 | de |
internal.identifier.document | 32 | |
internal.identifier.ddc | 320 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116506060910 | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | en |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | de |
internal.identifier.licence | 7 | |
internal.identifier.pubstatus | 2 | |
internal.identifier.review | 1 | |
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer | CERTAIN | |
internal.check.languageharmonizer | CERTAIN_RETAINED | |