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Public Accounts Committees In Eastern And Southern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo Mar 2014

Public Accounts Committees In Eastern And Southern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo

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This article provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of Public Accounts Committees (PACs) from Eastern and Southern Africa building on the work of McGee, Jacobs, Stapenhurst, and Staddon. By analyzing an original set of data, this article shows that PACs in these two regions are bigger, have more staff members, and are more likely to be chaired by opposition Members of Parliament than they have in other countries and regions. Furthermore, the data show that Eastern and Southern African PACs are more active than their counterparts elsewhere. However, lack of political will and limits to the range of powers …


Public Accounts Committees In Eastern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo Mar 2014

Public Accounts Committees In Eastern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo

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The paper presents a comparative analysis of the organization, the powers, the functioning of public accounts committees in Eastern Africa. The paper highlights the exceptionalism Eastern African PACs. The paper in fact discovers and reports an inverse relationship between the amount of activities performed and the range of powers with which Eastern African PACs are endowed


Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Uganda, Riccardo Pelizzo Mar 2014

Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Uganda, Riccardo Pelizzo

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the report analyzes the structural characteristics, the powers, the organization, the functioning and the activities of the PAC from Uganda