African Parliaments Volume 1

Download or read book African Parliaments Volume 1 written by Linda Khumalo and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.