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Title: | Assessing democratic quality and performance in legislatures | ||||||
Author: | Jalali Naini, Mandana |
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0000 0004 2690 3689
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Awarding Body: | University of Hull | ||||||
Current Institution: | University of Hull | ||||||
Date of Award: | 2009 | ||||||
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This thesis looks into the possibility of assessing legislative performance and democratic quality using performance management frameworks and methods used for organisational development and change and whether measurement of this kind is beneficial to improving democratic quality and the legitimation of the political system in general. Political institutions and in particular legislatures are often immune from the adverse effects of poor performance due to large budget allocations regardless of efficacy. Furthermore a rise in efficiency is often seen as a threat to the institution's accountability. The literature on legislative performance is mainly confined to legislative policy making output which is not necessarily a sign of good performance. Neither is performance only about the consideration of the costs and resource utilisation or the behaviour of actors and individuals in the policy making process as dependent variables. As mentioned such considerations seem rather irrelevant to the performance of legislative outcomes since legislatures usually do not have budgetary or spending concerns as in the private sector.
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Supervisor: | Norton, Philip, Baron Norton of Louth | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.518621 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
Keywords: | Politics | ||||||
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