Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process

ISBN-13: 9780367617882 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str.

Sven T. Siefken; Hilmar Rommetvedt

Opis

This book sheds new light on the often shadowy, but essential role of committees, which exist in modern parliaments around the globe, and it questions the conventional notion that the ‘real’ work of parliament happens in committees.

Spis treści

1. Investigating the role of parliamentary committees in the policy process  2. A black box that deserves more light: Comparative findings on parliamentary committees in the policy process  3. Assess – to Assist: A preliminary analysis of committees in Arab parliaments  4. The role of parliamentary committees and legislative agreements in party bargaining during minority government in Denmark  5. Committees in the Finnish Eduskunta: Cross-party cooperation and legislative scrutiny behind closed doors  6. Twenty years of attempts at reforming committees: A tale of reforms missing the mark at the French National Assembly  7. No paradise of policy making: The role of parliamentary committees in the German Bundestag  8. From ‘a rubber stamp’ to influencing policy: A critical view of committees in the parliament of Ghana  9. Parliamentary committees in the Hungarian Parliament: Instruments of political parties and government agenda control  10. Strength and weakness: Legislative and oversight powers of the parliamentary committee system in Israel  11. Japan's unusual but interesting parliamentary committees: An arena and transformative model?  12. Exploring the gap between theory and practice in law-making and oversight by committees of the Nigerian National Assembly  13. Norwegian parliamentary committees: Split and sidelined in the policy process  14. Committees in a party-dominated parliament: The Spanish Congreso de los Diputados  15. Parliamentary Committees in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, 2002 to 2020  16. The role of legislative committees in the policy process: The case of the Ukrainian parliament  17. Still deviant? The development and reform of the UK House of Commons committee system, 1979 to present  18. "Specially-commissioned minorities": committee governance and political parties in the United States Congress