Committee Requests and Assignments: The Role of Risk-Taking in Assignment Success

摘要: Committees are a critical and even essential component in the legislative process their formation organization has been subject of extensive research. Since practice committee selection involves party leaders or on committees responding to member requests, relationship between members’ desires assignment results at core this The absence actual requests for non-Congressional bodies major inhibiting factor present recent availability such data number state legislatures dating back 1970s, provides us with unique opportunity explore nature across time U.S. sub-national level. This paper examines effects variety situational contextual as well individual level explanatory factors request-assignment twelve session period. One new set legislator variables - risk-taking these is added analysis. Because we were able gather robust including multiple sessions, also consider time.