Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies

Parliamentary democracy is the most common way of organizing delegation and accountability in contemporary democracies. Yet knowledge of this type of regime has been incomplete and often unsystematic. Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies offers new conceptual clarity on the top...

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Hlavní autoři:	Strom, Kaare, Müller, Wolfgang C., Bergman, Torbjörn
Médium:	E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Oxford Oxford University Press 2003 Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Vydání:	1
Edice:	Comparative Politics
Témata:	Comparative Politics Cross-cultural studies Demokrati Europe European Union Legislative bodies - Europe, Western - History - 20th century Parlamentarism Political science Representative government and representation Representative government and representation > Europe, Western SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP SOCIAL SCIENCES Socialvetenskap Statsvetenskap Västeuropa democratic governance central banks European Union principal-agent theory parliamentarism policy process parliamentary democracy corporatism delegation accountability
ISBN:	019829784X, 9780198297840, 0199291608, 9780199291601, 019152297X, 9780191522970
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORY -- 1. Parliamentary Democracy: Promise and Problems -- 2. Delegation and its Perils -- 3. Parliamentary Democracy and Delegation -- II. SURVEY -- 4. Democratic Delegation and Accountability: Cross-national Patterns -- 5. Austria: Imperfect Parliamentarism but Fully-fledged Party Democracy -- 6. Belgium: Delegation and Accountability under Partitocratic Rule -- 7. Denmark: Delegation and Accountability in Minority Situations -- 8. Finland: Polarized Pluralism in the Shadow of a Strong President -- 9. France: Delegation and Accountability in the Fifth Republic -- 10. Germany: Multiple Veto Points, Informal Coordination, and Problems of Hidden Action -- 11. Greece: 'Rationalizing' Constitutional Powers in a Post-dictatorial Country -- 12. Iceland: A Parliamentary Democracy with a Semi-presidential Constitution -- 13. Ireland: 'O What a Tangled Web. . .'-Delegation, Accountability, and Executive Power -- 14. Italy: Delegation and Accountability in a Changing Parliamentary Democracy -- 15. Luxembourg: A Case of More 'Direct' Delegation and Accountability -- 16. The Netherlands: Rules and Mores in Delegation and Accountability Relationships -- 17. Norway: Virtual Parliamentarism -- 18. Portugal: Changing Patterns of Delegation and Accountability under the President's Watchful Eyes -- 19. Spain: Delegation and Accountability in a Newly Established Democracy -- 20. Sweden: From Separation of Power to Parliamentary Supremacy-and Back Again? -- 21. The United Kingdom: Still a Single 'Chain of Command'? The Hollowing Out of the 'Westminster Model' -- III. ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION -- 22. Dimensions of Citizen Control -- 23. Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P