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Volume 4• Number 2

Summer 2004

 


JAMES COLEMAN BATTISTA
University of North Texas
Re-examining Legislative Committee Representativeness in the States

 I re-examine theories of legislative committee organization by using simulation to assess how representative state legislative committees are of their parent bodies. I find that clearly unrepresentative committees are rare and concentrated in a few chambers. I also find that comparing committee and chamber medians leads to very different conclusions about representativeness than does comparing means. My findings tend to confirm the informational model of committees and disconfirm the partisan model, but they cannot directly address the distributive model. 
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