Investigating the role of parliamentary committees in the policy process / Sven T. Siefken and Hilmar Rommetvedt -- A black box that deserves more light : comparative findings on parliamentary committees in the policy process / Sven T. Siefken and Hilmar Rommetvedt -- Assess in order to assist : a preliminary analysis of committees in Arab parliaments / Ali Sawi -- The role of parliamentary committees and legislative agreements in party bargaining during minority government in Denmark / Flemming Juul Christiansen and Henrik Jensen -- Committees in the Finnish Eduskunta : cross-party cooperation and legislative scrutiny behind closed doors / Tapio Raunio -- Twenty years of attempts at reforming committees : a tale of reforms missing the mark at the French National Assembly / Claire Bloquet - No paradise of policy making : the role of parliamentary committees in the German Bundestag / Sven T. Siefken -- From 'a rubber stamp' to influencing policy : a critical view of committees in the parliament of Ghana / Ernest Darfour -- Parliamentary committees in the Hungarian Parliament : instruments of political parties and government agenda control / Csaba Nikolenyi -- Strength and weakness : legislative and oversight powers of the parliamentary committee system in Israel / Chen Friedberg -- Japan's unusual but interesting parliament committees : an arena and transformative model? / Kuniaki Nemoto and Ellis S. Krauss -- Exploring the gap between theory and practice in law-making and oversight by committees of the Nigerian National Assembly / Benjamin Ekeyi -- Norwegian parliamentary committees : split and sidelined in the policy process / Hilmar Rommetvedt -- Committees in a party-dominated parliament : the Spanish Congreso de los Diputados / Pablo Oñate and Bernabé Aldeguer -- Parliamentary committees in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, (2002 to 2020) / Ömer Faruk Gençkaya -- The role of legislative committees in the policy process : The case of the Ukrainian parliament / Irina Khmelko, Oleksii Bruslyk and Liudmyla Vasylieva -- Still deviant? the development and reform of the UK House of Commons committee system, (1979 to present) / Stephen Holden Bates, Louise Thompson, Mark Goodwin and Stephen McKay -- "Specially-commissioned minorities" : committee governance and political parties in the United States Congress / Anne Marie Cammisa.