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A Strategic Interaction Model, Riccardo Pelizzo Jul 2012

A Strategic Interaction Model, Riccardo Pelizzo

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The paper argues that institutional change and performance can bothe be explained on the basis of a simple startegic interaction model. The purpose of this presentation is to sketch this model.


A New Index Of Legislative Oversight, Riccardo Pelizzo Jan 2012

A New Index Of Legislative Oversight, Riccardo Pelizzo

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The purpose of this paper is to present a new index of legislative oversight. Building on the work by Stapenhurst (2011), who argued that a proper index of legislative oversight capacity should reflect not only legislatures’ internal oversight capacity but also the impact of contextual factors, we devise and propose a modified version of the Stapenhurst. The results of the empirical analyses presented in the paper sustain the claim that when properly operationalized and measured, legislative oversight capacity is a good predictor of legislative oversight effectiveness and other policy relevant results.