Cole, Michael and McAllister, Laura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-5230 2015. Evaluating and theorising committee scrutiny: A UK comparative perspective. Local Government Studies 41 (2) , pp. 220-239. 10.1080/03003930.2014.904226 |
Abstract
This article addresses committee scrutiny undertaken through the three main UK devolved institutions (the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly). This is undertaken using a framework derived from scholarship about House of Commons select committees and a substantive comparative literature. Devolved committee scrutiny is thus compared and contrasted in relation to a three-phase analysis in terms of selection, evaluative and output elements. The findings are also discussed in relation to core elements of institutional theory – institutional path dependency, ideational path dependency, the logic of appropriateness and the logic of consequence. This connection is used to develop several testable theoretical propositions concerning committee scrutiny. Findings about UK devolved committee scrutiny (and also scrutiny undertaken through House of Commons select committees) are also related to scholarship about local government scrutiny in Britain and contrasts and similarities specified. Furthermore, some testable theoretical propositions are applied to British local scrutiny.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR) |
Publisher: | Routledge |
ISSN: | 0300-3930 |
Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2022 07:06 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/124010 |
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