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Foreword | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Overview | p. 7 |
Tools for legislative oversight: an empirical investigation | p. 9 |
Oversight and democracy reconsidered | p. 29 |
Oversight and the budget process | p. 49 |
The legislature and the budget | p. 51 |
Budgets - an accountant's perspective | p. 67 |
Assessing the power of the purse: an index of legislative budget institutions | p. 79 |
The role of the legislature in the budget drafting process: a comparative review | p. 99 |
A note on what happens if no budget is passed before the fiscal year begins | p. 111 |
Public accounts committees | p. 117 |
The value of a nonpartisan, independent, objective analytical unit to the legislative role in budget preparation | p. 131 |
Legislative budget offices: international experience | p. 141 |
Country case studies | p. 159 |
Administrative review and oversight: the experience of postcommunist legislatures | p. 161 |
Separation of powers and legislative oversight in Russia | p. 173 |
Administrative review and oversight: the experience of Westminster | p. 183 |
Explaining patterns of oversight in Brazilian subnational governments | p. 193 |
Evolving patterns of legislative oversight in Indonesia | p. 201 |
Legislative oversight and the Israeli committee system: problems and solutions | p. 217 |
Parliamentary oversight of defense in South Africa | p. 229 |
Keeping a watchful eye? Parliaments and the politics of budgeting in Latin America | p. 243 |
Does parliament make a difference? The role of the Italian parliament in financial policy | p. 267 |
Legislative budgeting in the Czech Republic | p. 279 |
Budget accountability and legislative oversight in transition: the case of post-Suharto Indonesia | p. 293 |
Establishment of Uganda's parliamentary budget office and parliamentary budget committee | p. 311 |
Conclusions: legislatures and administration in oversight and budgets: constraints, means, and executives | p. 323 |
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