Author: Elena Griglio
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509925686
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The oversight of executive is a key function of parliament, and is central to the relationship between branches of government. Recently, however, the influence of parliament on policymaking has been diluted. This book plots trends in parliaments across Europe to illustrate points of convergence and divergence. It compares the tools and methods developed by parliaments to bolster their crucial oversight role, and it demonstrates that oversignt of the executive itself - more than lawmaking - is the pivotal dimension of parliaments in Europe for regaining their spheres of influence and democratic control over decision-making.
Parliamentary Oversight of the Executives
Author: Elena Griglio
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509925686
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The oversight of executive is a key function of parliament, and is central to the relationship between branches of government. Recently, however, the influence of parliament on policymaking has been diluted. This book plots trends in parliaments across Europe to illustrate points of convergence and divergence. It compares the tools and methods developed by parliaments to bolster their crucial oversight role, and it demonstrates that oversignt of the executive itself - more than lawmaking - is the pivotal dimension of parliaments in Europe for regaining their spheres of influence and democratic control over decision-making.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509925686
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The oversight of executive is a key function of parliament, and is central to the relationship between branches of government. Recently, however, the influence of parliament on policymaking has been diluted. This book plots trends in parliaments across Europe to illustrate points of convergence and divergence. It compares the tools and methods developed by parliaments to bolster their crucial oversight role, and it demonstrates that oversignt of the executive itself - more than lawmaking - is the pivotal dimension of parliaments in Europe for regaining their spheres of influence and democratic control over decision-making.
Tools for Parliamentary Oversight
Author: Hironori Yamamoto
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
ISBN: 9291423505
Category : Legislative auditing
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
ISBN: 9291423505
Category : Legislative auditing
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector
Author: Philipp Fluri
Publisher: DCAF
ISBN: 8683543102
Category : Legislative oversight
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher: DCAF
ISBN: 8683543102
Category : Legislative oversight
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Anti-Corruption Evidence
Author: Rick Stapenhurst
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783030141424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783030141424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Parliamentary Oversight Tools
Author: Riccardo Pelizzo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136517243
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136517243
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
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.
Comparative Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Omnibus Legislation
Author: Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030727483
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book is the first in the world to provide a cross-national, comparative exploration of omnibus legislation. It contributes to the global debate over omnibus legislation and offers comprehensive, thorough and multifaceted coverage that concerns the fields of legislation and legisprudence, comparative law, political science, public policy and economics. Beyond its relevance for these fields, the book will support practitioners in parliaments, governments and courts, thereby impacting the actual use of omnibus legislation. A new, major and controversial reform is enacted in the middle of the night. It is buried in a massive omnibus bill hundreds of pages in length, which is rammed through the legislative process at breakneck speed. The legislators receive the final version of the bill in the very last minute, and protest that they’ve had no opportunity to read it in detail and know what they’re voting upon. The majority party’s legislative leaders, however, are unimpressed, and the law is eventually passed on the basis of strict party discipline. Though it may sound far-fetched, this scenario is all too familiar in many legislatures around the world. The legislative practice of combining numerous unrelated measures in one long bill, which is often passed via a highly expedited process, has become a matter of intense debate and criticism in many countries.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030727483
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book is the first in the world to provide a cross-national, comparative exploration of omnibus legislation. It contributes to the global debate over omnibus legislation and offers comprehensive, thorough and multifaceted coverage that concerns the fields of legislation and legisprudence, comparative law, political science, public policy and economics. Beyond its relevance for these fields, the book will support practitioners in parliaments, governments and courts, thereby impacting the actual use of omnibus legislation. A new, major and controversial reform is enacted in the middle of the night. It is buried in a massive omnibus bill hundreds of pages in length, which is rammed through the legislative process at breakneck speed. The legislators receive the final version of the bill in the very last minute, and protest that they’ve had no opportunity to read it in detail and know what they’re voting upon. The majority party’s legislative leaders, however, are unimpressed, and the law is eventually passed on the basis of strict party discipline. Though it may sound far-fetched, this scenario is all too familiar in many legislatures around the world. The legislative practice of combining numerous unrelated measures in one long bill, which is often passed via a highly expedited process, has become a matter of intense debate and criticism in many countries.
Watching the Watchers
Author: H. Bochel
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137270438
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This study offers the first detailed examination of the varied means by which parliament through its committees and the work of individual members has sought to scrutinise the British intelligence and security agencies and the government's use of intelligence.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137270438
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This study offers the first detailed examination of the varied means by which parliament through its committees and the work of individual members has sought to scrutinise the British intelligence and security agencies and the government's use of intelligence.
The European Parliament as an Accountability Forum
Author: Adina Akbik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108835759
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An examination of executive actors' accountability for EU economic decisions in the aftermath of the euro crisis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108835759
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An examination of executive actors' accountability for EU economic decisions in the aftermath of the euro crisis.
Parliaments and Post-Legislative Scrutiny
Author: Franklin de Vrieze
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000326292
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
To what extent have parliaments a responsibility to monitor how laws are implemented as intended and have the expected impact? Is the practice of Post-Legislative Scrutiny emerging as a new dimension within the oversight role of parliament? What approach do parliaments apply in assessing the implementation and impact of legislation? These are the fascinating questions guiding this book. Case studies offer an in-depth look at how particular countries and the European Union conduct Post-Legislative Scrutiny. The analysis puts Post-Legislative Scrutiny in the context of parliamentary oversight and parliaments’ engagement in the legislative cycle. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the value of Post-Legislative Scrutiny as a public good, benefiting the executive, legislature and the people in ensuring that law delivers what is expected of it, as well as to respond to the need for greater clarity as to what is meant by the term. In this way, the publication can assist legislatures to think more clearly as to what precisely they understand, and seek to achieve, by Post-Legislative Scrutiny. This book is the result of the co-operation between the Centre for Legislative Studies at the University of Hull and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Legislative Studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000326292
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
To what extent have parliaments a responsibility to monitor how laws are implemented as intended and have the expected impact? Is the practice of Post-Legislative Scrutiny emerging as a new dimension within the oversight role of parliament? What approach do parliaments apply in assessing the implementation and impact of legislation? These are the fascinating questions guiding this book. Case studies offer an in-depth look at how particular countries and the European Union conduct Post-Legislative Scrutiny. The analysis puts Post-Legislative Scrutiny in the context of parliamentary oversight and parliaments’ engagement in the legislative cycle. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the value of Post-Legislative Scrutiny as a public good, benefiting the executive, legislature and the people in ensuring that law delivers what is expected of it, as well as to respond to the need for greater clarity as to what is meant by the term. In this way, the publication can assist legislatures to think more clearly as to what precisely they understand, and seek to achieve, by Post-Legislative Scrutiny. This book is the result of the co-operation between the Centre for Legislative Studies at the University of Hull and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Legislative Studies.
Parliament and Democracy in the Twenty-first Century
Author: David Beetham
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
ISBN: 9291423661
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
ISBN: 9291423661
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description