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Parliamentary Committees in a Party-Centred Context: Looking Behind the Scenes

Parliamentary Committees in a Party-Centred Context: Looking Behind the Scenes

Mickler, Tim Alexander

Paperback

Series: Library of Legislative Studies

General ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 036770613X
ISBN13: 9780367706135
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the working procedures of parliamentary party groups within specialised committees - the backstage but primary means for MPs to influence policy.

It explains which MPs specialise in particular policy areas, how they make policy choices in committees, and, subsequently, how these individual decisions are aggregated and 'unified' within and via parliamentary party groups. In doing so, the book expertly reveals the internal working procedures of parliaments and the role of individual MPs vis-á-vis the parliamentary party group leadership. Based on an analysis of more than 3,000 committee assignments and over 100 in-depth interviews with MPs, it shows that individual experts in committees have a central role and decision-making power which is more varied and decentralised from the leadership than commonly assumed. It demonstrates that most policy decisions are prepared bottom-up rather than dictated top-down and that parliamentary party groups are not strictly hierarchical organisations dominated by elites.

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