Knesset Committees in a Supervisory Perspective: A Chronicle of a Failure Foretold?
Keywords:
The Knesset, Knesset committees, Knesset committee oversightAbstract
In a democracy, overseeing the executive branch by means of a parliamentary committee system is one of the legislature’s most important tasks in a democracy. Therefore it is quite surprising to find that despite the importance of this function, academic literature on the subject in the Israeli context is very meager. The article illuminates this neglected field by putting the Israeli committees’ supervision in historical perspective: From the 10th Knesset of the 1980s, through the 13th Knesset in the 1990s, and the 16th Knesset at the start of the new millennium.
The research focuses on a unique point of view: committees’ supervisory potential (or ability). It assumes that poor supervision prevented the committees from functioning properly; therefore the potential level should be studied before investigating the committees’ supervisory ineffectiveness. The research methodology measures their supervisory potential according to a number of parameters. This analysis enables a mapping of the failures that impair supervision and offers possible solutions for emending them.
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