An increased role for seniority? Committee chair selection in the European Parliament (1984-2014)
(2018) ECPR Standing Group on the EU Conference — Location: Paris (13.June.2018)
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Chiru, Mihail 
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- Although European Parliament committee chairs play a salient role in the legislative process of the EU we know virtually nothing about how they are selected and whether policy specialization and the individual attributes of the MEPs matter in the process. This paper draws on a unique longitudinal dataset that includes all full committee members, information on their past committee experience and office in the first seven terms of the EP and data on their parties and national delegations. Despite the complex proportionality rules that govern the selection of committee chairs in the European Parliament and the interdependence between their distribution and the allocation of other legislative offices, I find that committee seniority and to a greater extent chair seniority shape the nomination of committee chairs. On the contrary, there is no evidence that national party delegations use chair selection to reward their most loyal members, while EPG leaders do become chairs more often than regular members.
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Chiru, M. (2018). An increased role for seniority? Committee chair selection in the European Parliament (1984-2014). ECPR Standing Group on the EU Conference, Paris. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/60973