What Makes Public Accounts Committees Work? A Comparative Analysis

• Main Authors: PELIZZO, Riccardo, Stapenhurst, Rick, Sahgal, Vinod, Woodley, William
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/139
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article investigates whether and under what conditions Public Accounts Committees (PACs) are able to scrutinize government accounts. In doing so, we analyze survey data from 51 Commonwealth countries collected by the World Bank Institute in 2002. We find that the relationship between the formal...