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Committee systems in Portugal and Spain
| Resumo: | Legislative committees are the workhorses of efficient parliaments. LaPolambora highlights that "if the national legislature is to be a significant political actor, then it must have specialized committees of limited membership and considerable scope" (1974:123). Together with political parties, committees offer the organizational arena to aggregate preferences, curb transaction costs and facililate information acquisition and dissemination (Strøm 1998). According to Sartori, committees are optimal decision-making bodies because they "shun majority rule, seek unanimous agreements via internal deferred payments, and adjust to the outer world, or incorporate its demands, via side payments" (1987 236). |
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| Autores principais: | Fernandes, Jorge |
| Outros Autores: | RIERA, PEDRO |
| Assunto: | Legislative committees Portugal Spain |
| Ano: | 2019 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Legislative committees are the workhorses of efficient parliaments. LaPolambora highlights that "if the national legislature is to be a significant political actor, then it must have specialized committees of limited membership and considerable scope" (1974:123). Together with political parties, committees offer the organizational arena to aggregate preferences, curb transaction costs and facililate information acquisition and dissemination (Strøm 1998). According to Sartori, committees are optimal decision-making bodies because they "shun majority rule, seek unanimous agreements via internal deferred payments, and adjust to the outer world, or incorporate its demands, via side payments" (1987 236). |
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