Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies / edited by Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller and Torbjörn Bergman.

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TextSeries: Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Edition: [Pbk. ed.]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 764 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9780191522970
019152297X
1423768000
9781423768005

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies.DDC classification:

321.809409045 22

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JN94.A58 D45 2006eb

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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 Republic10. 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 Relationships17. 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.

BC; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

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Originally published.: 2003.

"This paperback edition contains a few corrections, most of which had already been included in the second printing of the hard cover version published in 2004. None of these corrections change any of our interpretations or conclusions"--Preface.