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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Legislative Oversight"”.
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Legislative Oversight Processes in U.S. States
… levels of professionalism. Measures of state legislative professionalism typically include metrics such as the number of legislative staff, legislative session length, and legislator compensation. This research considers the influence of variability in levels of legislative professionalism on …
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Effectiveness of Legislative Oversight Mechanisms: A Case of Limpopo Provincial Legislature
This study examines the effectiveness of the legislative oversight mechanisms in the Limpopo Legislature. The Limpopo Legislature is one of the crucial instruments for enforcing accountability in a democratic society. The aim of this study is to analyse the effectiveness of the legislative …
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The new South African Parliament : an evaluation of parliament's oversight function of the executive
… different methods for dealing with the issue of legislative oversight. Literature shows that this function is more effective in presidential systems than in parliamentary systems, since the presidential model provides a stronger constitutional framework for legislative oversight. The model that …
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Intelligence Outcomes: Assessing the 1975-1976 Intelligence Oversight Reforms
Legislative oversight of the executive branch is a significant feature of the separation of powers, and takes on greater importance in a persistent era of divided political control in the United States federal government. Agency theory and oversight theory have served as principal lenses for the …
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Playing favorites : Washington's meddling for peace in the politics of Israel and the Palestinian Authority
… This inherently complicates the task of legislative oversight, decreases points of leverage for lobbyists or working--level bureaucrats, and magnifies these leaders' subjective interpretation of international circumstances. In short, LSI is intensely personal.
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Room or relegation? : a critical analysis of section 77(2)(a) of the Companies Act, 2008, in light of the common law remedy of disgorgement
Corporate heresy 1 or legislative oversight: is there room for the common law remedy of disgorgement under section 77 (2)(a) of the Companies Act2 or has the remedy been relegated to the past? This controversial enquiry frames the groundwork for discussion upon which this dissertation is based. …
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A Critical Analysis of the Oversight Role and Function of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in Promoting Accountability in South Africa’s Public Sector
The thesis, A Critical Analysis of the Oversight Role and Function of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in Promoting Accountability in South Africa’s Public Sector, looks at the underlying problem of financial mismanagement in the public sector in relation to public accountability …
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Spying: A Normative Account of the Second Oldest Profession
… employed to control intelligence agencies: legislative oversight and judicial review. Both I argue employ biased principals and suffer from informational asymmetries. In chapter nine I step back from American institutions and characterize the universe of possible mechanisms to constrain …
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Strainer: State Transcript Rating for Informed News Entity Retrieval
… decades there has been a rapid decline in public oversight of state and local governments. From 2003 to 2014, the number of journalists assigned to cover the proceedings in state houses has declined by more than 30\%. During the same time period, non-profit projects such as Digital Democracy …