Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

--Claudia Lady Bird Johnson


  


Parliamentary Committees Module: Unit 6: Government Accountability and Parliamentary Committees

 

Select Bibliography

Wayne Cameron (2004)  Public Accountability: Effectiveness, Equity, Ethics 
Australian Journal of Public Administration 63 (4), 59–67.

Lamont, J. (2005) Documenting Government Accountability [Online] Available at: http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=9664 Accessed
February 2007.

OECD (2005 ) Public Sector Modernisation: Modernising Accountability and
ControlAvailable at:  http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/56/42/34904246.pdf
Accessed February 2007.

Sabourin, J (2002) The Member of Parliament’s Environment of
Accountability. In Parliamentary Accountability and Good Governance.
Ottawa: Parliamentary Centre & WBI.  Available at:  http://www.parlcent.ca/publications/pdf/sourcebooktext.pdf  [Accessed
January 2007].


Relevant Internet Resources 

Parliamentary Centre & World Bank Institute (2002) Parliamentary
Accountability and Good Governance: A Parliamentarians Handbook
[Online] Ottawa: Parliamentary Centre. Available at http://www.parlcent.ca/publications/pdf/sourcebooktext.pdf
[Accessed January 2007].

Wikipedia. Accountability [Online] Available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountability [Accessed April 2007]

Records Support Accountability [Online] Available at:
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/recordkeeping/why_manage
_records_4406.asp
[Accessed April 2007]

Accountability and Transparency [Online] Available at:
http://www.audit.nsw.gov.au/publications/reports/performance/1998
/srdassist/account.htm [Accessed April 2007]

Azeem, V. A. and Ahadzie, W. (2000) Budget Management and
Fiscal Transparency in the Budget Process in Ghana [Online]
ISODEC. Available at
http://www.isodec.org.gh/Papers/SummaryofTransparencyReport.pdf
[Accessed April 2007]

IMF (1999) Public Financial Accountability. Asian Review of Public
Administration, Vol. XI, No. 2 (July-December 1999)[Online) [Available
at: http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/EROPA
/ARPA-JulDec1999-Premchand.pdf [Accessed April 2007]


Additional Reading

Stapenhurst, R. Johnston, N. & Pelizzo, R. (Eds.) (2006). The Role
of Parliaments in Curbing Corruption. Washington DC: World Bank.

Stapenhurst, R. Sahgal, V. B. & Pelizzo, R. (2005). Scrutinizing
Public Expenditure Assessing the Performance of Public Accounts
Committee. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3613.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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