Riccardo Pelizzo, Frederick Stapenhurst

Parliamentary Oversight Tools

A Comparative Analysis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates Parliaments' capacity to oversee government activities, policies and expenditures. Utilising a comparative approach, the book presents a new examination of oversight tools and discusses the conditions under which such tools are employed effectively.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780415615716
• ISBN-10: 0415615712
• Artikelnr.: 57042635

Autorenporträt

Riccardo Pelizzo is a parliamentary consultant and research advisor to the World Bank Institute. Rick Stapenhurst is a parliamentary consultant and research advisor to the World Bank Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Theoretical foundations for legislative oversight 2.
Legisaltive oversight tools 3. Legislative oversight and the quality of
democracy 4. Legislative oversight and corruption 5. Legislative oversight
in Ghana 6. A strategic interaction model 7. Testing the model-the case of
Public Accounts Committees 8. Conclusions