Beyond Competition: Dominant Party Affiliation, Seniority, and Legislative Shirking in Committees

• In Event: Participation, Productivity, and Effectiveness

Brief Overview

This study explores how competition and dominant party affiliation affects participatory shirking throughout legislative careers, focusing on committee speeches by legislators from Japans prefectural assemblies between 2003 and 2019.

Author

• Robert Tor Erik Nordström, Waseda University, Graduate School of Political Science