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.
The result of a 9-year collaboration between the authors, this
book draws from the findings of survey data collected by the World
Bank Institute and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, analysing
information from 120 parliaments. The book represents a rigorous
attempt to test whether international organizations are correct in
claiming that the quality of democracy and good governance can be
improved by strengthening the oversight capacity of legislatures.
It discusses the tools available to parliaments worldwide, and
taking a comparative approach considers which tools are more or
less common, how oversight capacity can be estimated, how oversight
capacity is related to other institutional and constitutional
factors, and above all what ensures that oversight tools are used
effectively. This analysis reveals that while the quality of
democracy and good governance benefit from effective oversight,
oversight effectiveness cannot be reduced to oversight capacity.
The book urges policy makers and reformers to change their approach
from strengthening capacity to securing that the capacity is put to
good use.
Parliamentary Oversight Tools will be of interest to students,
scholars and practitioners of legislative politics and
governance."
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