EFFECTS OF PARTY SYSTEM FLUIDITY ON LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT AND GOOD GOVERNANCE INDICATORS (IN THE CONTEXT OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES)
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Date
2020
Authors
MUKHTAROVA, AKBIKESH
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Current Research Journal of Social Sciences
Abstract
While analyzing data for 47 Sub-Saharan African countries, this article
explores the correlation between Legislative Oversight and Worldwide
Governance Indicators (WGI) and the effects of Party System Fluidity
on WGI and legislative oversight. The effects of party systems fluidity
on governance indicators and legislative oversight have received little
systematic scholarly attention. To fill the gap in the existing literature,
the article explores how in/stability of party systems affects governance
indicators and legislative oversight capacity in Sub-Saharan African
countries. Analyzing the data on 47 Sub-Saharan African countries, we find
that legislative oversight has a strong positive relationship with Worldwide
Governance Indicators;1 however, instability of political party systems
expressed in high party systems fluidity has a negative relationship with
legislative oversight as well as all six dimensions of WGI. These findings
reaffirm: "that the stability of political party systems”2
(Pelizzo: 2020,
p. 265) is a crucial factor that is essential for the development of
democratic institutions and further evolvement of mechanisms of
democratic control of Parliaments over the work of national governments.
The work structure is the following: firstly, it analyzes how academic
scholarship defines legislative oversight and party system fluidity. The
second part presents our data analysis methods. In conclusion, the
paper discusses the research's key findings, namely the effects of party
systems fluidity on legislative oversight and WGI in the context of Sub Saharan African countries.
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Type of access: Open Access, Legislative Oversight, Party Systems Fluidity, Sub-Saharan African Countries, Worldwide Governance Indicators
Citation
Mukhtarova, A. (2020). Effects of Party System Fluidity on Legislative Oversight and Good Governance Indicators in Sub-Saharan African. Otoritas : Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan, 10(1), 14–23. https://doi.org/10.26618/ojip.v10i1.2782