Co-opted Oversight: Examining the Parliamentary Questions to Prime Ministers in Bangladesh

• In Event: Autocratic Governance

Brief Overview

It examines over 2,000 parliamentary questions to prime ministers in Bangladesh, demonstrating that legislators use them to display loyalty and praise rather than oversight, and reveals how accountability functions in hybrid regimes.

Authors

• Dipak Kumar Biswas, West Virginia University

• Erik S. Herron, West Virginia University