{"product_id":"citizens-rights-judges-and-state-accountability","title":"Citizens’ Rights, Judges and State Accountability","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: A G Noorani\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2002\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 396\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0 195659082\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume demonstrates how citizens can assert their rights and bring to account those who wield power. The issues raised have far reaching consequences and are recurring themes in India’s politics, making this collection of enduring interest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume of essays written in A G Noorani’s trademark lucid and accessible style deals with crises in various institutions including the judiciary, the civil services, and elections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt highlights the process of accountability in these institutions, the citizens’ right to know and correspondingly the states accountability to the people. It analyses the working of commissions of enquiry, the decline in the quality of the political process in recent years, the amplitude of Article 370 on Kashmir, and the armed forces. The essays are thought provoking and comparative in approach drawing examples from British and American experiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShorn of knotty legal details, yet replete with quotations, citations and references for interested readers, this collection of essays will interest all sections of the legal fraternity. It will also be of relevance to political scientists, journalists as well as interested lay readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION I: THE JUDICIARY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTackling Judicial Delinquency\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Judiciary in Decline:\u003cbr\u003eThe System’s Prestige at its Lowest Since Inception\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFarce or Obsolescence of Impeachment Process\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImputing Bias and the Law of Contempt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCourts and the Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCourts and Bar Associations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bar and the Bench\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Supreme Court and Demolition of Babri Masjid \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Supreme Courts Judgment on the Ayodhya Act, 1983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Supreme Court on Hindutva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Judges’s Case\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Code of Conduct for Judges\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJustice Shivappa’s Case\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION II: THE PROCESS OF ACCOUNTABILITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen a Minister Ought to Resign\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Law of Sanction for Prosecution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntegrity of Prosecutions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Supreme Court on the CBI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSatish Sharma’s Case\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Kargil Inquiry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Kargil Report\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION III: ELECTONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppointing the Chief Election Commissioner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDebarring Criminals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDebarring Purveyors of Religious Hate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElection Commission and Poll Surveys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDelimitation of Constituencies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION IV: COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDissolving a Commission of Inquiry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublishing Inquiry Reports\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJain Commission’s Final Report\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Tehelka Commission and Press Freedom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Commission as Vendetta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION V: THE CIVIL SERVICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil Servants and Ministers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Vasudevan Case\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransfer of Civil Servants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Civil Servants’ Truth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePapers of previous Regimes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION VI: THE RIGHT TO KNOW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePamphleteering and Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSplit Politics in South Asia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElection of Party Leaders: Two Political Cultures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Congress (I)’s Constitution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Party Organization and its Parliamentary Party\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpelling a Party Member\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaw for Parties: The German Model\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION VII: THE POLITICAL PROCESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCopyright in Nehru’s State Papers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreedom of Expression in Maps\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLibel as Crime: A Void Law\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedia Ethics and the Tehelka Operation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilm censorship: An Unconstitutional System\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Foreigner in the Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION VIII: ARTICLE 370 AND KASHMIR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArticles 370: Law and Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECTION IX: ARMED FORCES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Doctrine of Civilian Control\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"A G Noorani \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153669714288,"sku":"11192","price":44.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/11192.jpg?v=1793912389","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/citizens-rights-judges-and-state-accountability","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}