The Partisan Nature of Standing Committees A Critical Review of Committee Assignment Theories, and Empirical Evidence in the Korean National Assembly

AbstractThis paper studies the relationship between incumbent MPs’ activities and their electoral fortune. We address this question in the context of the French political system characterized by an executive domination, a candidate-centered electoral system, and an electoral schedule maximizing the impact of the presidential elections. Given the contradictory influence of these three institutional features on the relationship between MPs’ activities and electoral results, the overall link can only be assessed empirically. We test the effects of several measurements of MPs’ activities on both their vote share and reelection probability in the 2007 legislative election. We show that MPs’ activities are differently correlated to both the incumbents’ vote shares in the first round and their reelection. Despite the weakness of the French National Assembly, several parliamentary activities, especially bill initiation, have a significant effect on MPs’ electoral prospects.

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Efficiency of the private sector: a critical review of empirical evidence from public services

International Review of Administrative Sciences ◽

10.1177/002085239706300402 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 63 (4) ◽

pp. 459-474 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Kwong-leung Tang

Keyword(s):

Private Sector ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Critical Review ◽

Public Services

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Getting involved in plan-making: Participation in neighbourhood planning in England

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space ◽

10.1177/0263774x16664518 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

pp. 397-416 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Katherine Brookfield

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Critical Review ◽

Case Study Research ◽

Community Planning ◽

Future Planning ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Planning Policy ◽

Plan Making

Neighbourhood planning, introduced through the Localism Act 2011, was intended to provide communities in England with new opportunities to plan and manage development. All communities were presented as being readily able to participate in this new regime with Ministers declaring it perfectly conceived to encourage greater involvement from a wider range of people. Set against such claims, while addressing significant gaps in the evidence, this paper provides a critical review of participation in neighbourhood planning, supported by original empirical evidence drawn from case study research. It does so at an interesting time as the community, and/or neighbourhood, appears across political parties as a preferred scalar focus for planning. Challenging Ministers’ assertions, while mirroring past experiments in community planning, participation is found to be modest and partial, concentrated amongst a few, relatively advantaged communities, and relatively advantaged interests within those communities. The paper considers the implications for future planning policy and practice.

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