Scrutiny and policymaking in local councils: how parties use council tools

In recent years, political scientists have gained greater understanding of how national parliamentary parties use their tools: that is under what conditions they submit questions or amendments to legislation. We know surprisingly little about local councillors the tools at disposal: do these executive? When ordinances? examine extent and reflects differences between party groups’ ideologies in terms anti-elitism left-right dimension, coalition opposition parties. On basis an analysis 454 council groups 53 Dutch municipalities we find considerable evidence for