African Parliaments Volume 1
eBook - PDF

African Parliaments Volume 1

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  1. 284 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

African Parliaments Volume 1

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About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Sun Press
eBook ISBN
9781991201454
Edition
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Table of contents

  1. Contributing Authors
  2. List of Tables and Figures
  3. List of Acronyms
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction to the Volume
  7. Chapter 1: Context of Evaluative Institutions and Governance
  8. Chapter 2: An Analytical Framework for Systematic Evidence use in African Parliaments
  9. Chapter 3: A Systems Thinking Perspective on Evidence use in Parliaments
  10. Chapter 4: Parliaments in National Evaluation Systems: Current Practice, Future Potential
  11. Chapter 5: The Politics of Evidence in Parliamentary Oversight
  12. Chapter 6: Parliaments Looking forward: Technology, Fourth Industrial Revolution and Complex Problems
  13. Chapter 7: Parliamentary Evidence Use in Representation
  14. Chapter 7.1: Notes from Practice: Representation through Constituency Offices in the Parliament of Zambia
  15. Chapter 7.2: Notes from Practice: Parliamentary Constituency Offices to Strengthen Representation in South Africa
  16. Chapter 8: Challenges and Opportunities to Citizen Engagement in Africa
  17. Chapter 8.1: Notes from Practice: The use of Citizen Evidence in Parliamentary Oversight in Ghana
  18. Chapter 8.2: Notes from Practice: Efforts to Strengthen Citizens' Engagement in Parliamentary Processess in Kenya
  19. Chapter 9: Positioning African Parliaments to use Evidence Effectively in Shaping Developmental and Democratic Futures