Why does the majority party bother to have minority party members on committees?

Hong Min Park

Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2012, vol. 24, issue 2, 248-264

Abstract: Why would a generic parliament have committees with minority party members? If the majority party considers minority party committee members a burden, then it could choose to exclude minority party members entirely from the committee system. This, however, has rarely happened in history. In this paper, I provide an informational rationale for the bipartisan committee system through a simple signaling model. I show that, in equilibrium, the majority party on the floor can extract better information and, therefore, enact more preferred policy outcomes by forming committees with members of both parties.

Keywords: committees; Congress; majority party; minority party (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/0951629811429049

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