Government Accountability and Legislative Oversight

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, Staphenhurst and Pelizzo 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.

Product details

• Authors: Riccardo Pelizzo, Riccardo (Nazarbayev University Pelizzo, Pelizzo Riccardo, Frederick Stapenhurst, Stapenhurst Frederick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2013
• EAN: 9780415730068
• ISBN: 978-0-415-73006-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, Politics & government, Politics and government