Party Personnel Strategies
Party Personnel Strategies

Author: Matthew S Shugart

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0192651277

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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.

Party Personnel Strategies
Party Personnel Strategies

Author: Matthew Soberg Shugart

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0192897055

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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.

Party Personnel Strategies
Party Personnel Strategies

Author: Matthew Soberg Shugart

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780191919718

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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'.

Organizing Political Parties
Organizing Political Parties

Author: Thomas Poguntke

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0198758634

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Political party organizations play large roles in democracies, yet their organizations differ widely, and their statutes change much more frequently than constitutions or electoral laws. How do these differences, and these frequent changes, affect the operation of democracy? This book seeks to answer these questions by presenting a comprehensive overview of the state of party organization in nineteen contemporary democracies. Using a unique new data collection, the book's chapters test propositions about the reasons for variation and similarities across party organizations. They find more evidence of within-country similarity than of cross-national patterns based on party ideology. After exploring parties' organizational differences, the remaining chapters investigate the impact of these differences. The volume considers a wide range of theories about how party organization may affect political life, including the impact of party rules on the selection of female candidates, the links between party decision processes and the stability of party programmes, the connection between party finance sources and public trust in political parties, and whether the strength of parties' extra-parliamentary organization affects the behaviour of their elected legislators. Collectively these chapters help to advance comparative studies of elections and representation by inserting party institutions and party agency more firmly into the centre of such studies. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterised by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu. The series is edited by Emilie van Haute, Professor of Political Science, Universite libre de Bruxelles; Ferdinand Muller-Rommel, Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University; and Susan Scarrow, Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Houston.

101 Strategies for Recruiting Success
101 Strategies for Recruiting Success

Author: Christopher W. Pritchard

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780814430026

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A critical factor in your organization's success is your ability to hire -- and keep -- good people. But in order to tackle the toughest recruiting assignments and keep your company running smoothly with great hires who are there for the long haul, you need to infuse both common sense and corporate street smarts into your approach. 101 Strategies for Recruiting Success offers tips of the trade from a recruiting professional with more than two decades of experience. The book includes proven ways to reel in great talent, including how to make your general recruiting operations proactive rather than reactive, 25 ways to find the people your company needs, methods for conducting interviews and evaluating candidates, advice on how to recruit for diversity, retention tactics such as mentoring, performance appraisal, and anti-raiding strategies that begin before the candidate is hired, and a Recruiting Excellence Workbook.