Government accountability and legislative oversight [electronic resource] / Riccardo Pelizzo and Frederick Stapenhurst.
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 Stapenhur...
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | Routledge research in comparative politics ;
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| Summary: | 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 great. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 111 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317913214 1317913213 9781317913221 1317913221 9781315850610 1315850613 1306132967 9781306132961 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |