Legislative oversight and budgeting : a world perspective
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Legislative oversight and budgeting : a world perspective
（WBI development studies）
World Bank, c2008
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Other editors: Riccardo Pelizzo, David M. Olson, Lisa von Trapp
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Tools for legislative oversight : an empirical investigation / Riccardo Pelizzo and Rick Stapenhurst
- Oversight and democracy reconsidered / Riccardo Pelizzo
- The legislature and the budget / Rick Stapenhurst
- Budgets : an accountant's perspective / Kerry Jacobs
- Assessing the power of the purse : an index of legislative budget institutions / Joachim Wehner
- The role of the legislature in the budget drafting process : a comparative review / Katherine Barraclough and Bill Dorotinsky
- A note on what happens if no budget is passed before the fiscal year begins / Bill Dorotinsky
- Public accounts committees / Riccardo Pelizzo and Rick Stapenhurst
- The value of a nonpartisan, independent, objective analytical unit to the legislative role in budget preparation / Barry Anderson
- Legislative budget offices : international experience / John K. Johnson and Rick Stapenhurst
- Administrative review and oversight : the experience of postcommunist legislatures / David M. Olson
- Separation of powers and legislative oversight in Russia / Thomas F. Remington
- Administrative review and oversight : the experience of Westminster / Mark Shephard
- Explaining patterns of oversight in Brazilian subnational governments / Scott W. Desposato
- Evolving patters of legislative oversight in Indonesia / Edward Schneier
- Legislative oversight and the Israeli committee system : problems and solutions / Chen Friedberg
- Parliamentary oversight of defense in South Africa / Robert J. Griffiths
- Keeping a watchful eye? : parliaments and the politics of budgeting in Latin America / Carlos Santiso
- Does parliament make a difference? : the role of the Italian parliament in financial policy / Carolyn Forestiere and Riccardo Pelizzo
- Legislative budgeting in the Czech Republic / Zdenka Mansfeldová and Petra Rakušanová
- Budget accountability and legislative oversight in transition : the case of Post-Suharto Indonesia / Vishnu Juwono and Sebastian Eckardt
- Establishment of Uganda's parliamentary budget office and parliamentary budget committee / Beatrice Birungi Kiraso
- Legislatures and administration in oversight and budgets : constraints, means, and executives / David M. Olson
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Description
In most countries, parliament has the constitutional mandate to both oversee and hold government to account. In light of the increased focus on good governance, academics and legislative strengthening practitioners are re-examining parliament's oversight function with a view to increasing public financial accountability, curbing corruption, and contributing to poverty reduction. This volume brings together research from many different perspectives and many different legislative settings worldwide. As the country case studies in section III demonstrate, the accountability mechanisms or oversight tools available to the legislature vary based on constitutionally defined powers of the legislature, institutional arrangements between the branches of government, divisions of authority between national, regional, and local governments, the degree of legitimacy conferred on the legislature, and the resources available to it. The budget process provides critical opportunities. Section II of this volume is devoted to examining budget oversight from the formulation and approval of the budget, to implementation and the ex post examination of the public accounts.
Special attention is also paid to mechanisms to assist parliaments such as Public Accounts Committees and independent parliamentary budget offices. This title will be of interest to parliamentarians and parliamentary staff, legislative strengthening practitioners, and students of legislative development.
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