Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Siefken, Sven T.; Rommetvedt, Hilmar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book sheds new light on the often shadowy, but essential role of committees, which exist in modern parliaments around the globe, and it questions the conventional notion that the 'real' work of parliament happens in committees.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000441130
• Artikelnr.: 62339640

Autorenporträt

Sven T. Siefken is professor of political science at the German Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Parliamentary Research (IParl) in Berlin. Hilmar Rommetvedt is research professor of political science at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre in Stavanger, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Investigating the role of parliamentary committees in the policy process
2. A black box that deserves more light: Comparative findings on
parliamentary committees in the policy process 3. Assess - to Assist: A
preliminary analysis of committees in Arab parliaments 4. The role of
parliamentary committees and legislative agreements in party bargaining
during minority government in Denmark 5. Committees in the Finnish
Eduskunta: Cross-party cooperation and legislative scrutiny behind closed
doors 6. Twenty years of attempts at reforming committees: A tale of
reforms missing the mark at the French National Assembly 7. No paradise of
policy making: The role of parliamentary committees in the German Bundestag
8. From 'a rubber stamp' to influencing policy: A critical view of
committees in the parliament of Ghana 9. Parliamentary committees in the
Hungarian Parliament: Instruments of political parties and government
agenda control 10. Strength and weakness: Legislative and oversight powers
of the parliamentary committee system in Israel 11. Japan's unusual but
interesting parliamentary committees: An arena and transformative model?
12. Exploring the gap between theory and practice in law-making and
oversight by committees of the Nigerian National Assembly 13. Norwegian
parliamentary committees: Split and sidelined in the policy process 14.
Committees in a party-dominated parliament: The Spanish Congreso de los
Diputados 15. Parliamentary Committees in the Grand National Assembly of
Turkey, 2002 to 2020 16. The role of legislative committees in the policy
process: The case of the Ukrainian parliament 17. Still deviant? The
development and reform of the UK House of Commons committee system, 1979 to
present 18. "Specially-commissioned minorities": committee governance and
political parties in the United States Congress