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Discuss the role and limits of the Indians Parliament in checkmating political corruption, with special reference to the Bofors payoff and the Securities scams.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Principal Organs of Government

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Andreas Schedler ("Conceptualizing Accountability", 1999) splits accountability into answerability — being made to explain — and enforcement — being made to suffer consequences. Parliament's anti-corruption power lies almost wholly in the first: it can expose, inquire, legislate and discipline its own members, but it cannot prosecute. The period's two great scandals show both reach and…

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  • The role: instruments of answerability
  • Bofors: exposure without enforcement
  • The securities scam: a JPC that worked
  • The limits
  • Conclusion
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