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  • A new index of legislative oversight 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo (2012-01)
    The purpose of this paper is to present a new index of legislative oversight. Building on the work by Stapenhurst (2011), who argued that a proper index of legislative oversight capacity should reflect not only legislatures’ ...
  • Bridging the divide 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim (Politics and Policy, 2016-12)
    Party systems research has proceeded along two parallel lines of inquiry, one predominantly “qualitative” and the other “quantitative.” This article attempts to bridge this divide in two ways. First, by showing that ...
  • Determinants of Bribery: Theory and Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Araral, Eduardo; Pak, Anton; Xun, Wu (African Development Review, 2016-06-01)
    The paper investigates the determinants of bribery in sub-Saharan Africa by using probit models and data from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey of 10,457 firms in 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa from 2009 to 2013. By ...
  • Governance, business environment and foreign direct investments 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Omer, Baris (African Politics and Policy, 2015)
    In this paper we investigate the relationship between the quality of governance, the business environment and foreign direct investments. Looking at 49 countries in Africa, we present evidence supporting the claim that the ...
  • Organization, mandate, performance: PACs in the Asian region 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Bandyopadhyay, Sruti (2013)
    The paper is divided in four parts. Part One provides some information concerning the size, the partisan affiliation of the Chairpersons, the representation of opposition parties and the size of the support staff of the ...
  • Party system fragmentation and PAC performance: the Case of India 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kindra, Gurprit (2012)
    While the political consequences of party system fragmentation have extensively been discussed in the literature, little to no attention has been paid to whether the fragmentation of the party system affects the performance ...
  • The costs of party system change: the case of Tanzania 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim; Kinyondo, Abel (African Politics and Policy 1.3 (2015): 1-11., 2015)
    Pelizzo, Kinyondo and Nwokora argue that party system changes and increases in party system changeability have generally been associated with a worsening democratic quality.
  • The political consequences of party system change 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim (Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Politics & Policy, Volume 43, No. 4 (2015), 2015)
    This article engages one of the important gaps in the literature on party system effects: the consequences of party system change. We discuss how existing empirical approaches to party system change do not actually capture ...
  • Tourism and employment: the case of Togo 
    Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel (African Politics and Policy, 2015)
    This paper sets to investigate whether and to what extent the development of tourism sector in Togo is associated with and possibly responsible for economic growth, employment creation and generation of wealth in the ...