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Trends in Parliamentary Oversight

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
This report presents the Roundtable entitled "Legislative Oversight: Theories and Practices," organized by the editors as part of the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, January 7-10, 2004. The papers presented herein reflect the papers presented at that Roundtable.
Riccardo Pelizzo   +2 more
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Political selection of public servants and parliamentary oversight [PDF]

open access: yesEconomics of Governance, 2012
In this paper, we propose a framework to integrate the identity of legislators in a politico-economic analysis of parliamentary oversight. Legislators decide about the effort they invest in oversight activities depending on their individual control costs and the level of electoral competition.
Alois Stützer, Stützer Alois
exaly   +5 more sources

Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector in Serbia

Problems of Post-Communism, 2013
Parliamentary oversight of the security sector in the Republic of Serbia exists in legal and institutional terms but not as an everyday element of democracy due to such factors as lack of political will, inadequate expertise, and the rarity with which the Committee on Defense and Security exercises its authority.
Rokvić, Vanja, Ivaniš, Željko
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Parliamentary questions and oversight in the European Union

European Journal of Political Research, 2011
Abstract Delegation in the European Union (EU) involves a series of principal‐agent problems, and the various chains of delegation involve voters, parties, parliaments, governments, the European Commission and the European Parliament.
Sven‐Oliver Proksch   +1 more
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Understanding oversight through parliamentary questions: The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union

open access: yesEuropean Union Politics
Although parliamentary questions are an essential tool of legislative oversight, there is limited research on their variation in holding governments accountable. In this article, we analyse a new dataset of 1393 oral questions posed by Members of the European Parliament during the 8 th ...
Marta Migliorati
exaly   +3 more sources

Parliamentary Oversight: A Conceptual Framework

2018
In the parliamentary system of democratic governance, the executive branch is the organ exercising authority in governing the state, executing and enforcing laws and policies. Its members originate from parliament and it derives its democratic legitimacy from being able to command the confidence of parliament, the legislative branch, and is also held ...
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