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Article Dans Une Revue Sociologie du Travail Année : 2009

French deputies, their assistants and the uses of staff appropriations: A sociology of political work

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This analysis focuses on how members of Parliament in France organize their staff. The way deputies distribute the tasks among their assistants suggests that the organization and division of labor should be understood mainly in relation to the pressures generated by MPs in their home district, since a seat in the National Assembly very much depends on providing services to constituents. The staff under the use of the single member district system is so involved in solving voters’ “personal” problems of various sorts that assistants are forced to devise strategies for regulating demand and providing often token responses. Developing relations with constituents even affects their legislative duties. For deputies, it is a way of reducing the “occupational” risks inherent in elective office. They must adapt to a voting system that incites them to adopt a conception of representation closer to that of spokesperson for the residents of their district than of representative of the Nation.
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hal-02290572 , version 1 (17-09-2019)

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Patrick Le Lidec. French deputies, their assistants and the uses of staff appropriations: A sociology of political work. Sociologie du Travail, 2009, 51 (supplément 2), pp.117-135. ⟨10.1016/j.soctra.2009.06.023⟩. ⟨hal-02290572⟩
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