AN EXOCET IN A RED BOX: PARLIAMENTARY ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE SANDLINE AFFAIR

POLIDANO, CHARLES

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, n.º 2/2001, pág. 249

1. Background: the accountability debate. 2. TheSandline Affair. 3. The select commitee's investigation. a)Overlap between the committee and other investigations. b)Whose finest hour? Politics and the select committee. c) Thehouse resolution, and the select committee's report. 4.Inquiries and select committees compared. a) The influenceof politics. b) Reaching the parts a committee cannot:logistical constraints. c) Appreciating administrativerealities. 5. Evolving conventions of accountability: thefuture primacy of inquiries?. a) Parliamentary supremacy andthe primacy of inquiries.