Tools for Legislative Oversight: An Empirical Investigation

• Main Authors: Pelizzo, Riccardo, Stapenhurst, Rick
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: committee hearings; democracies; democracy; democratic regimes; electorate; executive branch; good governance; government; governments; law; laws; legislators; national parliaments; parliament; parliamentarians; parliamentary control; parliamentary oversight; parliamentary systems; parliaments; political rights; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/44; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1043/viewcontent/ToolsforLegislativeOversight.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Parliaments are the institutions through which governments are held accountable to the electorate. They have a wide range of tools with which to carry out this oversight function, but until recently little analysis had been undertaken on the characteristics or use of such tools. This paper uses data...