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Tim Alexander Mickler

Parliamentary Committees in a Party-Centred Context

Structure, Composition, Functioning

Beyond the immediately visible plenum, parliaments are highly com- plex institutions. They work through various venues in which decisions are prepared or even taken. The two main institutions in this regard are parliamentary party groups, which comprise legislators who are elected under the same party label, and parliamentary committees, topic-specif- ic sub-groups of legislators across all parliamentary party groups. Both of these groups fulfil important tasks in the internal organisation of leg- islatures and the processing of legislation.

This dissertation analyses how parliamentary party groups organise their work in parliamentary committees. The analysis consists of three parts:

The first part of this book presents an analysis of the structural features of committees. Why do some legislatures with strong parliamentary par- ty groups establish strong committees while others do not? To answer this question, the committee systems of 30 legislatures of countries with a parliamentary system of government are analysed.

The next two empirical chapters of this book provide more insight into the restrictions of parliamentary party group organisations on individ- ual legislators in committees. The analysis focuses specifically on the se- lection criteria of committee members and the room for manoeuvre of committee members after they have been assigned to a committee. The evidence for these chapters relies on in-depth analyses of the proceed- ings in a smaller number of legislatures: the Dutch Tweede Kamer, the German Bundestag and the Irish Dáil Éireann.

Pa rlia me nta ry C ommi tte es in a P arty-C en tre d C on text | T im A. Mick le r

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Tim Alexander Mickler

Parliamentary Committees in a Party-Centred Context

Structure, Composition, Functioning

Beyond the immediately visible plenum, parliaments are highly com- plex institutions. They work through various venues in which decisions are prepared or even taken. The two main institutions in this regard are parliamentary party groups, which comprise legislators who are elected under the same party label, and parliamentary committees, topic-specif- ic sub-groups of legislators across all parliamentary party groups. Both of these groups fulfil important tasks in the internal organisation of leg- islatures and the processing of legislation.

This dissertation analyses how parliamentary party groups organise their work in parliamentary committees. The analysis consists of three parts:

The first part of this book presents an analysis of the structural features of committees. Why do some legislatures with strong parliamentary par- ty groups establish strong committees while others do not? To answer this question, the committee systems of 30 legislatures of countries with a parliamentary system of government are analysed.

The next two empirical chapters of this book provide more insight into the restrictions of parliamentary party group organisations on individ- ual legislators in committees. The analysis focuses specifically on the se- lection criteria of committee members and the room for manoeuvre of committee members after they have been assigned to a committee. The evidence for these chapters relies on in-depth analyses of the proceed- ings in a smaller number of legislatures: the Dutch Tweede Kamer, the German Bundestag and the Irish Dáil Éireann.

Pa rlia me nta ry C ommi tte es in a P arty-C en tre d C on text | T im A. Mick le r

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