Practice: citizens can access legislative processes and documents

QoG code: aii_q43

Sub-score (0-100). Question no. 43. In practice, citizens can access legislative processes and documents.

A 100 score is earned where all the following conditions are met:
1) legislative records (at least transcripts of debates/votes, roll call votes, and full text of bills) are accessible to the public online or at the cost of photocopying,
2) most records are available within a day of legislative proceedings, and
3) there is a complete, easily available legislative archive either on or off line.

A 50 score is earned where any of the following conditions apply:
1) occasionally legislative records (at least transcripts of debates/votes, roll call votes, and full text of bills) are not accessible to the public online or the cost is higher than photocopying;
2) records are usually available within a week of legislative proceedings, or
3) citizens have limited access to a legislative archive either on or off line or the archive is not complete.

A 0 score is earned where at least one of the following conditions apply:
1) legislative records (at least transcripts of debates/votes, roll call votes, and full text of bills) are rarely accessible to the public online,
2) records take more than a week after legislative proceedings to be available, or
3) there is no legislative archive or citizens don't have access to it.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-09-25
Last updated by source
2024-05-28
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 53
Standard time-series 53
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2013-2023

Country coverage

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  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Benin
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Cape Verde
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Congo, Democratic Republic
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Eswatini (former Swaziland)
  • Ethiopia (1993-)
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Senegal
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Togo
  • Tunisia
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Year coverage

This variable has information from 2013 to 2023.