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Key party goals serve to advance a policy brand and maximize seats
in the legislature. This book offers a theory of how political
parties assign their elected members - their "personnel" - to
specialized legislative committees to serve collective
organizational goals, here known as "party personnel strategies".
Individual party members vary in their personal attributes, such as
prior occupation, gender, and local experience. Parties seek to
harness the attributes of their members by assigning them to
committees where their expertise is relevant, and where they may
enhance the party's policy brand. However, under some electoral
systems, parties may need to trade-off the harnessing of expertise
against the pursuit of seats, instead matching legislators
according to electoral situation (e.g. marginality of seat) or
characteristics of their constituency (e.g. population density).
This book offers an analysis of the extent to which parties trade
these goals by matching the attributes of their personnel and their
electoral needs to the functions of the available committee seats.
The analysis is based on a dataset of around six thousand
legislators across thirty-eight elections in six established
parliamentary democracies with diverse electoral systems.
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