Parliaments play a pivotal role in governance, and yet little is known about how evidence is used for decision-making in these complex, political environments. Together with its practice companion volume, African Parliaments: Systems of evidence in practice, this volume explores the multiple roles legislatures play in governance, the varied mandates and allegiances of elected representatives, and what this means for evidence use. Given the tensions in Africa around the relationships between democracy and development, government and citizen agency, this volume considers the theories around parliamentary evidence use, and interrogates what they mean in the context of African governance.
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Table of contents
- Contributing Authors
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Acronyms
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction to the Volume
- Chapter 1: Context of Evaluative Institutions and Governance
- Chapter 2: An Analytical Framework for Systematic Evidence use in African Parliaments
- Chapter 3: A Systems Thinking Perspective on Evidence use in Parliaments
- Chapter 4: Parliaments in National Evaluation Systems: Current Practice, Future Potential
- Chapter 5: The Politics of Evidence in Parliamentary Oversight
- Chapter 6: Parliaments Looking forward: Technology, Fourth Industrial Revolution and Complex Problems
- Chapter 7: Parliamentary Evidence Use in Representation
- Chapter 7.1: Notes from Practice: Representation through Constituency Offices in the Parliament of Zambia
- Chapter 7.2: Notes from Practice: Parliamentary Constituency Offices to Strengthen Representation in South Africa
- Chapter 8: Challenges and Opportunities to Citizen Engagement in Africa
- Chapter 8.1: Notes from Practice: The use of Citizen Evidence in Parliamentary Oversight in Ghana
- Chapter 8.2: Notes from Practice: Efforts to Strengthen Citizens' Engagement in Parliamentary Processess in Kenya
- Chapter 9: Positioning African Parliaments to use Evidence Effectively in Shaping Developmental and Democratic Futures