Unit 7 Questions

Please answer each of the following questions.  If you are taking this course in a group you may then meet to discuss your answers.

1. What is parliamentary transparency? And what are its requirements?
2. How important is freedom and access to information for transparency?
3. Explain the key mechanisms for ensuring transparency of parliamentary committees.
4. Why do parliamentary committees need constituency outreach programs?

Select Bibliography

Parliamentary Centre, WBI & CIDA (2000) Controlling Corruption A
Parliamentarian Handbook 2nd Edition [Online] Available at: http://www.parlcent.ca/publications/pdf/corruption.pdf
[Accessed January 200]

Cook, T. E. (1989) Making Laws and Making News: Media
strategies in the U.S. House of Representatives. Washington
D.C. Brookings Institute Press

Button, M. & Mattson K. (1999) Deliberative Democracy in
Practice: Challenges and Prospects for Civic Deliberation
Polity, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Summer, 1999), pp. 609-637

Relevant Internet Resources

Bouchet N. & kariithi, N. (2003) Parliament and the Media: Building
an Informed Society. The World Bank. Available at:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/WBI/Resources/wbi37228Bouchet
KariithiWEB.pdf Accessed February 2007

NDI ( 2004) Constituency Outreach in Sierra Leone: A guide for members
of Parliament
http://www.iknowpolitics.org/files/constituencyoutreachinseirraleon2004.pdf