An exocet ina red box : parliamentary accoutability in the sandline affair
By: POLIDANO, Charles
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ArticlePublisher: 2001Public Administration an International Quarterly 79, 2, p. 249-275Abstract: In the UK, it is commonly proposed that the accountability gap resulting from ministers` reluctance to accept responsibility for departmental failures could be closed by giving parliamentary select committess stronger investigative powers. In the Sandline afari the Foreign Affairs Commitee sought to take on such a role, notwithstanding that a separate external inquiry was already under way. Ths paper compares the two mechanisms of accountability. It concludes that committees are poorly suited to investigate high-profile administrative failures because they are too influenced by party politics. Independente inquiries are better for the purpose (though improvments are needed here too). A parliamentray resolution gave the inquiry primacy over the committee in the Sandline case. This may become an important precedent
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In the UK, it is commonly proposed that the accountability gap resulting from ministers` reluctance to accept responsibility for departmental failures could be closed by giving parliamentary select committess stronger investigative powers. In the Sandline afari the Foreign Affairs Commitee sought to take on such a role, notwithstanding that a separate external inquiry was already under way. Ths paper compares the two mechanisms of accountability. It concludes that committees are poorly suited to investigate high-profile administrative failures because they are too influenced by party politics. Independente inquiries are better for the purpose (though improvments are needed here too). A parliamentray resolution gave the inquiry primacy over the committee in the Sandline case. This may become an important precedent
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