Royce Carroll, Gary W. Cox, Mónica Pachón
Parties neither cease to exist nor cease to compete for office when the general election is over. Instead, a new round of competition begins, with legislators as voters and party leaders as candidates. The offices at stake are what we call �mega-seats.� We consider the selection of three different types of mega-seats�cabinet portfolios, seats on directing boards, and permanent committee chairs�in 57 democratic assemblies. If winning parties select the rules by which mega-seats are chosen and those rules affect which parties can attain mega-seats (one important payoff of �winning�), then parties and rules should coevolve in the long run. We find two main patterns relating to legislative party systems and a country's length of experience with democratic governance.
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