A new index of legislative oversight
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2012-01
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Pelizzo, Riccardo
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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’ internal oversight capacity but also the impact of contextual factors, we devise and propose a modified version of the Stapenhurst. The results of the empirical analyses presented in the paper sustain the claim that when properly operationalized and measured, legislative oversight capacity is a good predictor of legislative oversight effectiveness and other policy relevant results.
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index of legislative oversight, Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Political science
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Riccardo Pelizzo. 2012. "A new index of legislative oversight"