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The Oversight
Author | : Charlie Fletcher |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780316279499 |
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"Exciting, exhilaring, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized." -- M. R. Carey The Oversight of London has been sworn for millennia to prevent the natural and the supernatural worlds from preying on each other. Now, at its lowest ebb, with its headquarters destroyed and its last members scattered far and wide, this secret society will battle for survival and face the harshest foe it has ever met: itself.
Parliamentary Oversight Tools
Author | : Riccardo Pelizzo,Frederick Stapenhurst |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781136517242 |
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This book investigates Parliaments’ capacity to oversee government activities, policies and expenditures. Utilising a comparative approach, the book presents a new examination of oversight tools and discusses the conditions under which such tools are employed effectively. The result of a 9-year collaboration between the authors, this book draws from the findings of survey data collected by the World Bank Institute and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, analysing information from 120 parliaments. The book represents a rigorous attempt to test whether international organizations are correct in claiming that the quality of democracy and good governance can be improved by strengthening the oversight capacity of legislatures. It discusses the tools available to parliaments worldwide, and taking a comparative approach considers which tools are more or less common, how oversight capacity can be estimated, how oversight capacity is related to other institutional and constitutional factors, and above all what ensures that oversight tools are used effectively. This analysis reveals that while the quality of democracy and good governance benefit from effective oversight, oversight effectiveness cannot be reduced to oversight capacity. The book urges policy makers and reformers to change their approach from strengthening capacity to securing that the capacity is put to good use. Parliamentary Oversight Tools will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of legislative politics and governance.
Intelligence and Security Oversight
Author | : Sophie Richardson,Nicholas Gilmour |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2016-06-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783319302522 |
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This book presents a comprehensive source document on intelligence and security oversight and review. It compares the oversight arrangements found in nine countries—New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and South Africa. This is done through an analysis of a wide range of areas including statutory basis, agencies overseen, membership, tenure, appointment/dismissal, mandate, powers, access to classified information, complaints function, reporting and, in the case of parliamentary committees, the frequency of meetings. Within an annotated bibliography section Richardson and Gilmour also provide detailed summaries of other relevant research and commentary aligned with oversight and review practices. Intelligence and Security Oversight: An Annotated Bibliography and Comparative Analysis comprehensively demonstrates the powers and limitations placed with, and on, oversight bodies, appealing to academics, researchers and practitioners in the intelligence and security environment.
Issues in Civilian Oversight of Policing in Canada
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Author | : Ian D. Scott |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Civilian review boards (Police administration) |
ISBN | : 0888047207 |
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Government Accountability and Legislative Oversight
Author | : Riccardo Pelizzo,Frederick Stapenhurst |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781317913214 |
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The purpose of the book is to investigate parliaments’ capacity to oversee government activities, policies and budget legislation. By analysing the survey data that the World Bank Institute in collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union collected from 120 parliaments, Pelizzo and Stapenhurst show what tools are available to parliaments worldwide, which tools are more or less common, how oversight capacity can be estimated, how oversight capacity is related to other institutional and constitutional factors. In addition to discussing the conditions under which oversight capacity is greater, the authors perform some analyses to assess the policy implications of oversight capacity. Specifically, they look at the impact of oversight capacity on the quality of democracy and on the level of good governance.
Reinforcing Rule of Law Oversight in the European Union
Author | : Carlos Closa,Dimitry Kochenov |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2016-10-13 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107108882 |
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This book provides an analysis of key approaches to rule of law oversight in the EU and identifies deeper theoretical problems.
Central Bank Governance and Oversight Reform
Author | : John Cochrane,John Taylor |
Publsiher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2016-05-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780817919269 |
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A central bank needs authority and a sphere of independent action. But a central bank cannot become an unelected czar with sweeping, unaccountable discretionary power. How can we balance the central bank's authority and independence with needed accountability and constraints? Drawn from a 2015 Hoover Institution conference, this book features distinguished scholars and policy makers' discussing this and other key questions about the Fed.
Oversight
Author | : Michael D. Minta |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2011-08-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400840341 |
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Oversight answers the question of whether black and Latino legislators better represent minority interests in Congress than white legislators, and it is the first book on the subject to focus on congressional oversight rather than roll-call voting. In this important book, Michael Minta demonstrates that minority lawmakers provide qualitatively better representation of black and Latino interests than their white counterparts. They are more likely to intervene in decision making by federal agencies by testifying in support of minority interests at congressional oversight hearings. Minority legislators write more letters urging agency officials to enforce civil rights policies, and spend significant time and effort advocating for solutions to problems that affect all racial and ethnic groups, such as poverty, inadequate health care, fair housing, and community development. In Oversight, Minta argues that minority members of Congress act on behalf of broad minority interests--inside and outside their districts--because of a shared bond of experience and a sense of linked fate. He shows how the presence of black and Latino legislators in the committee room increases the chances that minority perspectives and concerns will be addressed in committee deliberations, and also how minority lawmakers are effective at countering negative stereotypes about minorities in policy debates on issues like affirmative action and affordable housing.