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  • What Makes Public Accounts Committees Work? A Comparative Analysis

    Author(s)
    Pelizzo, Riccardo
    Stapenhurst, Rick
    Sahgal, Vinod
    Woodley, William
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Pelizzo, Riccardo
    Year published
    2006
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    Abstract
    This article investigates whether and under what conditions Public Accounts Committees (PACs) are able to scrutinize government accounts. In doing so, we analyze survey data from 51 Commonwealth countries collected by the World Bank Institute in 2002. We find that the relationship between the formal powers of the PACs and their successful performance is conditional. Specifically, we argue that the success of PACs depend on the behavior of committee members, on the availability of independent sources of information, and on the media's interest in scrutinizing government accounts.This article investigates whether and under what conditions Public Accounts Committees (PACs) are able to scrutinize government accounts. In doing so, we analyze survey data from 51 Commonwealth countries collected by the World Bank Institute in 2002. We find that the relationship between the formal powers of the PACs and their successful performance is conditional. Specifically, we argue that the success of PACs depend on the behavior of committee members, on the availability of independent sources of information, and on the media's interest in scrutinizing government accounts.
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    Journal Title
    Politics & Policy
    Volume
    34
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2006.00040.x
    Copyright Statement
    © 2006 The Policy Studies Organization. Published by Wiley-Blackwell. Self-archiving of manuscripts in institutional repositories is not yet supported by The Policy Studies Organization. Please refer to the journal link for access to the definitive, published version or contact the author for more information.
    Subject
    Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified
    Policy and Administration
    Political Science
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/28444
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