These are the Electoral Commission, which regulates elections and party finance the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, who investigates complaints about MPs’ misconduct and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), which regulates MPs’ pay and business costs. That is why we chose to study three watchdogs directly sponsored by parliament. Less obvious, but just as fundamental, is the tension for watchdogs whose role is to regulate the behaviour of parliamentarians, being themselves appointed and funded by parliament. ![]() There is an obvious tension with watchdogs whose role is to scrutinise the executive (like the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests ), being themselves appointed and sponsored by the government. But they have developed haphazardly, and vary in the ways they are independent and accountable. Constitutional watchdogs have emerged in the UK as important overseers of political propriety and the democratic process.
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