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"Assessing the Committee Outlier Hypothesis in Post-Communist Russia"
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Assessing the Committee Outlier Hypothesis in Post-Communist Russia
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Abstract: Studies of mixed-member systems have addressed whether the use of two sets of electoral rules creates a divergent patterns of legislative behavior. Few of these studies focus on committees, which is surprising given the fact that the debate in the U.S. Congress literature is framed around distributional theories. Distributional theories posit that due to the need to win election in local districts, members will self-select on to particular committees and will be preference outliers. If such pressures exist in mixed systems, they should only exist for those legislators elected in local districts, and not those elected in proportional representation elections. Through a statistical analysis of the budget committee of the Russian Duma, this article shows that evidence of a mandate divide was rather limited. The variation in evidence of the mandate divide appears to be caused by two factors: the percentage of single-member district legislators on the committee and the level of party cohesion.
Frank C. Thames
Texas Tech University
Department of Political Science
Box 41015
Lubbock, TX 79409-1015
Telephone: (806) 742-4045
Email: frank.## email not listed ##
Paper Presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, August 31
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Septemember 3, 2006, Philadelphia, PA
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This research was assisted by an award from the Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council
with funds provided by the State Department under the Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII).
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Assessing the Committee Outlier Hypothesis in Post-Communist Russia
Abstract: Studies of mixed-member systems have addressed whether the use of two sets
of electoral rules creates a divergent patterns of legislative behavior. Few of these studies
focus on committees, which is surprising given the fact that the debate in the U.S.
Congress literature is framed around distributional theories. Distributional theories posit
that due to the need to win election in local districts, members will self-select on to
particular committees and will be preference outliers. If such pressures exist in mixed
systems, they should only exist for those legislators elected in local districts, and not
those elected in proportional representation elections. Through a statistical analysis of
the budget committee of the Russian Duma, this article shows that evidence of a mandate
divide was rather limited. The variation in evidence of the mandate divide appears to be
caused by two factors: the percentage of single-member district legislators on the
committee and the level of party cohesion.
Frank C. Thames
Texas Tech University
Department of Political Science
Box 41015
Lubbock, TX 79409-1015
Telephone: (806) 742-4045
Email: frank.## email not listed ##
Paper Presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, August 31
st
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Septemember 3, 2006, Philadelphia, PA
1
This research was assisted by an award from the Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council
with funds provided by the State Department under the Program for Research and Training on Eastern
Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII).
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