Pelizzo, Riccardo2015-11-252015-11-252012-01Riccardo Pelizzo. 2012. "A new index of legislative oversight"http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/814The 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.enindex of legislative oversightResearch Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Political scienceArticle