Parliamentary Committees: Meeting the Epistemic Threshold of Legislation
| Published date | 01 March 2024 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00195561231204893 |
| Author | Karunakar Patra |
| Date | 01 March 2024 |
Parliamentary
Committees: Meeting
the Epistemic
Threshold of
Legislation
Karunakar Patra1
Abstract
Parliamentary committees are evolution of practice and procedures of legisla-
tions in liberal democracies over the years. The strength of a procedural democ-
racy is enriched by the way the committees act to provide scrutiny, evaluation,
and the improvement of the legislation and policy outcomes. This article articu-
lates the imperative of parliamentary committees in strengthening legislation and
policy commitments. How do parliamentary committees improve legislations
and policy formulation in majoritarian democracies? This article includes the fol-
lowing sections: first, it discusses the meaning, role and objectives of parliamen-
tary Standing Committees. Second, it focusses on the types of committees and
their constitutional role in the process of legislation. Third, it deals with elabo-
rate examination of the functions of the committees. The last section explores
the recent trends of the functioning of the committees. The author concludes
with the remark that the success of parliamentary democracy as an institution of
representation would be strengthened with an integrated and independent role
of parliamentary committees.
Keywords
Legislation, parliamentary committees, public consultation, public policy,
democracy
Article
Indian Journal of Public
Administration
70(1) 82–95, 2024
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1 Department of Political Science, Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Corresponding author:
Karunakar Patra,Department of Political Science, Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi, New Delhi
110003, India.
E-mail: karunakpatra@gmail.com
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