Riccardo Pelizzo, Frederick Stapenhurst

Government Accountability and Legislative Oversight (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The purpose of the book is to investigate parliaments' capacity to oversee government activities, policies and budget legislation. By analysing the survey data that the World Bank Institute in collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union collected from 120 parliaments, Pelizzo and Stapenhurst show what tools are available to parliaments worldwide, which tools are more or less common, how oversight capacity can be estimated, how oversight capacity is related to other institutional and constitutional factors. In addition to discussing the conditions under which oversight capacity is greater, the authors perform some analyses to assess the policy implications of oversight capacity. Specifically, they look at the impact of oversight capacity on the quality of democracy and on the level of good governance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317913214
• Artikelnr.: 40025146

Autorenporträt

Riccardo Pelizzo is a professor at the School of Economics and Social Sciences at Singapore Management University.

Frederick Stapenhurst is an consultant/advisor to the World Bank Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Tools of Legislative Oversight in the Lower Chambers. 2.
Tools of Legislative Oversight in Upper Chambers. 3. Tools of Budgetary
Oversight. 4. Legislative ethics and codes of conduct. 5. Oversight
Capacity: new and old measures 6. Control, Democracy, Good Governance and
Development?. 7. Conclusions.