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Kloha, Philip. "Majority Party Reliability: Explaining Majority Party Stacking and Ideological Outliers in House Committees" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64674_index.html>

Kloha, P. , 2003-08-27 "Majority Party Reliability: Explaining Majority Party Stacking and Ideological Outliers in House Committees" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64674_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle, Kenneth Shepsle presents several stages of the committee assignment process. Studies of committee representativeness have typically examined only the results of the final stage, seat assignment, while ignoring the prior stage of determining party ratios and committee sizes. This study suggests that a proper understanding of party ratios and committee sizes is a vital element to any examination of committee representativeness. A theory of majority party reliability is outlined and leads to a re-evaluation of two conventional wisdoms. The first is that committee party ratios mirror the House floor party ratios. The second is that no committees should be expected to be ideological outliers. Theory and data are presented which suggest that both of these conventional wisdoms need revision. Finally, it is alleged that a new form of committee outlier (one based on majority party redundancy rather than constituency characteristics) needs to be acknowledged.

How the Senate and President Affect the Organization of the House When the Majority Party Does Not Change: A Test of the Constitutional Theory of Legislative Organization

Mechanisms of Majority Party Control over the Ideological Character of Enacted Bills: the House of Representatives, 1955-1994