Der Deutsche Bundestag

Ismayr, Wolfgang

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“…The latter are important gatekeepers in the allocation of assignments to their delegation and also oversee a fair representation of their groups in all committees. In all party groups, the final decision on committee assignments first requires the agreement of the parliamentary party leadership ( Fraktionsvorstand ), and then by majority vote the agreement of the whole party group ( Fraktionsversammlung ) (Schüttemeyer, 1998; Ismayr, 2012).…”

Section: Political Parties and The Process Of Assigning Committee Seats In The Bundestagmentioning

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“…The assignment process just sketched does not imply a unidirectional top-down relationship between party leadership and ordinary members. Instead, Ismayr (2012: 168) characterizes this process as a lengthy and conflict ridden one in which leaderships in all parties aim to be responsive to the demands of ordinary members. This involves surveying members on their preferences prior to seat allocation and also sometimes lengthy informal negotiations during this process.…”

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“…This involves surveying members on their preferences prior to seat allocation and also sometimes lengthy informal negotiations during this process. In these negotiations, the parties’ main sociological groups (Mickler, 2013) and the chairs of the policy task forces function as important mediators (Ismayr, 2012: 168).…”

Section: Political Parties and The Process Of Assigning Committee Seats In The Bundestagmentioning

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Who brings home the pork? Parties and the role of localness in committee assignments in mixed-member proportional systems

Gschwend

Zittel

2016

Party Politics

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The assignment of seats to specialized standing committees is a most consequential choice in legislative contexts. Distributive theories of legislative organization suggest that electoral incentives to cultivate personal votes result in the self-selection of legislators to committees best suited to please their constituents and, thus, to secure reelection. However, these theories discard the partisan basis of European parliaments and therefore fail to adequately assess the politics of committee assignments in these particular contexts. This article aims to explore the significance of distributive theories for the German case in differentiated ways and on the basis of a new and rich data set including statistical data for five legislative terms (1983, 1987, 1998, 2005, and 2009). It argues that in partisan assemblies, political parties might develop an interest in distributive politics themselves and might assign distinct types of legislators to distinct committees to seek personal votes contingent upon distinct electoral incentives. Particularly, we argue that Germany’s mixed proportional system provides incentives to parties to assign legislators with profound local roots to district committees best suited to please geographic constituents.

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Section: Political Parties and The Process Of Assigning Committee Seats In The Bundestagmentioning

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Section: Political Parties and The Process Of Assigning Committee Seats In The Bundestagmentioning

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Who brings home the pork? Parties and the role of localness in committee assignments in mixed-member proportional systems

Gschwend

Zittel

2016

Party Politics

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“…Ismayr 2012, 177, see also Beyme 1997, 195. The influence of committee chairs in the Bundestag is not a recent phenomenon.…”

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Committee Chairs and Legislative Review in Parliamentary Democracies

Fortunato

Martin

Vanberg

2017

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Recent research on parliamentary institutions has demonstrated that legislatures featuring strong committees play an important role in shaping government policy. However, the impact of the legislators who lead these committees – committee chairs – is poorly understood. This study provides the first examination of whether the partisan control of committee chairs in parliamentary systems has a systematic impact on legislative scrutiny. The article argues that committee chairs can, in principle, use their significant agenda powers to serve two purposes: providing opposition parties with a greater ability to scrutinize government policy proposals, and enabling government parties to better police one another. Analyzing the legislative histories of 1,100 government bills in three parliamentary democracies, the study finds that control of committee chairs significantly strengthens the ability of opposition parties to engage in legislative review. The analysis also suggests that government parties’ ability to monitor their coalition allies does not depend on control of committee chairs.

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“…This also holds true for other types of legislative initiatives. Nevertheless, groups of MPs in the Bundestag can theoretically table motions and minor or major requests independently from their party through a quorum of 5% of all members and they occasionally do take such action (Ismayr 2012). We hence aim to see whether legislators with progressive ambition are more likely to engage in activities independent of or opposed to their party group.…”

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Every Single Word: A New Data Set Including All Parliamentary Materials Published in Germany

Remschel

Kroeber

2020

Gov. & oppos.

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In this article, we introduce a unique data set containing all written communication published by the German Bundestag between 1949 and 2017. Increasing numbers of scholars make use of protocols of parliamentary speeches, parliamentary questions or the texts of legislative drafts in various fields of comparative politics including representation, responsiveness, professionalization and political careers or parliamentary agenda studies. Since preparing parliamentary documents is rather resource intensive, these studies remain limited to single points in time, types of documents and/or policy areas. The long time horizon and various types of documents covered by our new comprehensive data set will enable scholars interested in parliaments, parties and representatives to answer various innovative research questions related to legislative studies.

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Der Deutsche Bundestag

Cited by 69 publications

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Who brings home the pork? Parties and the role of localness in committee assignments in mixed-member proportional systems

Who brings home the pork? Parties and the role of localness in committee assignments in mixed-member proportional systems

Committee Chairs and Legislative Review in Parliamentary Democracies

Every Single Word: A New Data Set Including All Parliamentary Materials Published in Germany

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