Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies [Paperback]

This is the most ambitious and comprehensive account of the institutions of democratic delegation in West European parliamentary democracies to date. It provides an unprecedented cross-national investigation of West European political institutions from 1945 until the present day, as well as situating modern parliamentary democracy in the context of changing political parties and the growing importance of the European Union.

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Section 1: Introduction and Theory
1. Parliamentary Democracy: Promise and Problems,Wolfgang C. M?ller, Torbj?rn Bergman, and Kaare Str?m
2. Delegation and its Perils,Arthur Lupia
3. Parliamentary Democracy and Delegation,Kaare Str?m
4. Democratic Delegation and Accountability: Cross-National Patterns,Torbj?rn Bergman, Wolfgang C. M?ller, Kaare Str?m, and Magnus Blomgren
Section 2: Country Chapters
5. Austria: Imperfect Parliamentary Democracy but Fully-Fledged Party Democracy,Wolfgang C. M?ller
6. Belgium: Delegation and Accountability under Partitocratic Rule,Lieven de Winter and Patrick Dumont
7. Denmark: Delegation and Accountability in Minority Situations,Erik Damgaard
8. Finland: Polarized Pluralism in the Shadow of a Strong President,Tapio Raunio and Matti Wiberg
9. France: Delegation and Accountability in the Fifth Republic,Jean-Louis Thi?bault
10. Germany: Multiple Veto Points, Informal Co-ordination, and Problems of Hidden Action,Thomas Saalfeld
11. Greece: 'Rationalizing' Constitutional Powers in a Post-Dictatorial Country,Georgios Trantas, Paraskevi Zagoriti, Torbj?rn Bergman, Wolfgang C. M?ller, and Kaare Str?m
12. Iceland: A Parliamentary Democracy with a Semi-Presidential Constitution,Svanur Kristj?nsson
13. Ireland: 'O What a Tangled Web...' - Delegation, Accountability, and Executivlã: