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The Indian Parliament

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The Indian Parliament
A Critical Appraisal

Edited by
Sudha Pai and Avinash Kumar

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Contents

one PARLIAMENTARY FUNCTIONING
INTERNAL DIMENSIONS

M. R. Madhavan and Harsimran Kalra

Kaushiki Sanyal

Raghab P. Dash

K. C. Sivaramakrishnan and Bhanu Joshi

5 Performing Ethno-Linguistic Representation: A Study
of Indian Parliamentary Ceremony and Ritual
Carole Spary

two ARLIAMENTARY CONTROL VERSUS
EXECUTIVE AUTONOMY

Amitabh Mukhopadhyay

7 Can the DRSCs Step into the Institutional Void of
Indias Parliamentary Democracy?
Valerian Rodrigues

8 Strengthening Legislative Capabilities of Parliament:
The National Advisory Council
Balveer Arora and K. K. Kailash

9 Delegation of Legislation in India: Constitutional
Imperatives and the Economy of Politics
Jaivir Singh

three PARLIAMENTARY FUNCTIONING
EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS

Avinash Kumar

11 Criminality in the Lok Sabha: An Examination
of MP Participation and MP Attributes
Devesh K. Tiwari

12 Delusions of Grandeur: How Corruption in the
Media Undermines the Working of Parliamentary Democracy
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

13 The Rival Representative Claims of Parliament and
Civil Society in India
Avinash Kumar

Figures, Tables and Annexures

FIGURES

1.1	Number of sittings of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha per year
1.2	Actual hours of sitting as percentage of available hours
1.3	Productive hours as percentage of total scheduled hours
1.4	Number of bills passed per year
1.5	Time spent on bills in the fifteenth Lok Sabha
1.6	Number of Private Members Bills passed by Parliament
1.7	Percentage of demands for grants guillotined in 2011
1.8	Percentage of demands for grants guillotined in 2012
1.9	Percentage of funds sanctioned
2.1	Number of disqualifications in the state legislatures (till 2004)
5.1	Regional language use across sessions of the fourteenth Lok Sabha

TABLES

1.1	Details of bills referred to Standing Committees since 2009
1.2	Details of work done by Committees on Subordinate Legislation
1.3	Number of Public Accounts Committee reports tabled before Lok Sabha
1.4	Percentage of time lost during Question Hour
2.1	Anti-defection provisions under the Tenth Schedule
2.2	Disqualifications from 1985 to 2009
2.3	Important judgements on disqualification and the Tenth Schedule by the Supreme Court
2.4	Recommendations of various bodies on reforming the anti-defection law
2.5	Regulation of defection in some countries
3.1	Statement of Private Members Bills enacted
4.1	Rajya Sabha MPs: mismatch
4.2	Composition and break-up of the legislative councils existing in India
4.3	Seatpopulation ratios
5.1	Regional languages used in parliamentary debate during the fourteenth Lok Sabha
5.2	Incidence of regional language use in the fourteenth Lok Sabha by type of debate
5.3	Languages used during the oath/affirmation ceremony of the first session, fifteenth Lok Sabha, June 2009
7.1	DRSCs and the corresponding ministries/departments
7.2	Statement showing work done by DRSCs, 199394
7.3	Statement showing work done by DRSCs, 200809
7.4	Attendance at the meetings of DRSCs serviced by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, 200809
7.5	Governments response to the recommendations of DRSCs
8.1	Composition of the National Advisory Council
10.1	Aggressorvictim relationships during the 1967 parliamentary elections
10.2	Details of candidates with pending criminal cases in the state legislative assemblies since 2003
10.3	Comparison of the thirteenth and fourteenth Lok Sabhas on the basis of criminals and criminal charges
10.4	Comparison of ten MPs with most serious criminal charges between 2004 and 2009
10.5	List of top ten MPs with serious criminal charges in the fifteenth Lok Sabha
10.6	MPs with criminal background party-wise in the fifteenth Lok Sabha
10.7	MPs with criminal background state-wise in the fifteenth Lok Sabha
11.1	Summary statistics for selected characteristics of MPs
11.2	Summary statistics of the activities performed by MPs
11.3	Difference of means test: comparing MP performance with respect to alleged criminality
11.4	Difference of means test: comparing MP performance of allegedly criminal MPs with respect to charges of violence
11.5	Difference of means test: comparing MP performance with respect to incumbent status
11.6

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