Committee Parliamentary Specialization Index: Explaining MPs’ specialisation in the Spanish "Congreso de los Diputados"

• Oñate, Pablo ^[1] ; Ortega, Carmen ^[2]
  1. [1] Universitat de València

     Universitat de València

     Valencia, España

     
  2. [2] Universidad de Granada

     Universidad de Granada

     Granada, España

     
• Localización: The Journal of legislative studies, ISSN 1357-2334, Vol. 25, Nº. 3, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Committees in Comparative Perspective), págs. 394-408
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2019.1662610
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• Resumen

  • Nowadays legislatures are largely based on committee systems. This enables a division of work and specialisation, in the context of highly complex politics and policy development. It seems clear that MP specialisation in the field of the committee they serve on is an important political asset, both for MPs and their parliamentary party group. This paper presents the Committee Parliamentary Specialization Index. This index measures the degree an MP is specialised in the jurisdiction of the committee they serve on. In the second part of the paper, the index is applied to the Spanish Congreso de los Diputados, an interesting case for testing this multi-faceted index, to find institutional, political and individual factors that better explain the degree of MP specialisation.

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