Parliamentary Oversight Tools：A Comparative Analysis

Parliamentary consultants and advisers to the World Bank, Pelizzo and Stapenhurst use data from 2009 to map legislative oversight capacity globally and assess how it has evolved since 2001, when the last dataset was released. They consider theoretical foundations of legislative oversight, legislative oversight tools, the quality of democracy, corruption, Ghana, a strategic interaction model, and testing the model with public accounts committees. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Riccardo Pelizzo is a parliamentary consultant and research advisor to the World Bank Institute.

Rick Stapenhurst is a parliamentary consultant and research advisor to the World Bank Institute.