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Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Comparative Politics SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (783 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191522970
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary DemocraciesDDC classification:
  • 321.809409045
LOC classification:
  • JN94.A58D45 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Summary: 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.
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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.

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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.

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