Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Committee Representation in the European Parliament
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.
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Seite(n): 5-29
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Englisch
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Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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European Union Politics, 7(1)
- Thema
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Politikwissenschaft
Europapolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
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Geistige Schöpfung
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McElroy, Gail
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Veröffentlichung
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Vereinigtes Königreich
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2006
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-228941
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- McElroy, Gail
Entstanden
- 2006