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

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

Park, Hong Min - Personal Name;

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.

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Series Title: Journal of Theoretical Politics
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Publisher: Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2012
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 09516298
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Edition: Vol. 24 no. 2, April 2012,pp. 248-264
Subject(s): Committees
Why does the majority party bother
Majority party
Minority party
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