Parliamentary Oversight Tools: A Comparative Analysis

Parliamentary Oversight Tools investigates parliaments' capacity to oversee government activities, policies and budget legislation.The book analyses the survey data that the World Bank Institute in collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union collected from 120 parliaments. Utilising a comparative approach, it shows what tools are available to parliaments worldwide, which tools are more or less common, how oversight capacity can be estimated, and how oversight capacity is related to other institutional and constitutional factors. It uses this analysis to assess the policy implications of oversight capacity, and the level of oversight capacity on the quality of democracy and on the level of good governance.Parliamentary Oversight Tools will be of interest to students and scholars of legislative politics and governance.