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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.
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