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
2020-10
Authors
Mukhtarova, Akbikesh
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Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CRJSSH)
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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Legislative Oversight; Party Systems Fluidity; Sub-Saharan African Countries; Worldwide Governance Indicators
Citation
Mukhtarova A. Effects of Party System Fluidity on Legislative Oversight and Good Governance Indicators (in the context of Sub-Saharan African Countries). Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. 2020 3(2). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CRJSSH.3.2.10