Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 November 2003
- ISBN 9780198297840
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages780 pages
- Size 240x164x44 mm
- Weight 1312 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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 topic.
Taking principal-agent theory as its framework, the work illustrates how a variety of apparently unrelated representation issues can now be understood. This procedure allows scholarship to move well beyond what have previously been cloudy and confusing debates aimed at defining the virtues and perils of parliamentarism. This new empirical investigation includes all seventeen West European parliamentary democracies. These countries are compared in a series of cross-national tables and figures, and seventeen country chapters provide a wealth of information on four discrete stages in the delegation process: delegation from voters to parliamentary representatives, delegation from parliament to the prime minister and cabinet, delegation within the cabinet, and delegation from cabinet ministers to civil servants. Each chapter illustrates how political parties serve as bonding instruments which align incentives and permit citizen control of the policy process. This is complemented by a consideration of external constraints, such as courts, central banks, corporatism, and the European Union, which can impinge on national-level democratic delegation. The concluding chapters go on to consider how well the problems of delegation and accountability are solved in these countries.
Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies provides an unprecedented guide to contemporary European parliamentary democracies. As democratic governance is transformed at the dawn of the twenty-first century, it illustrates the important challenges faced by the parliamentary democracies of Western Europe.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Section 1: Introduction and Theory
Parliamentary Democracy: Promise and Problems
Delegation and its Perils
Parliamentary Democracy and Delegation
Democratic Delegation and Accountability: Cross-National Patterns
Section 2: Survey
Austria: Imperfect Parliamentarism but Fully-Fledged Party Democracy
Belgium: Delegation and Accountability under Partitocratic Rule
Denmark: Delegation and Accountability in Minority Situations
Finland: Polarized Pluralism in the Shadow of a Strong President
France: Delegation and Accountability in the Fifth Republic
Germany: Multiple Veto Points, Informal Co-ordination, and Problems of Hidden Action
Greece: 'Rationalizing' Constitutional Powers in a Post-Dictatorial Country
Iceland: A Parliamentary Democracy with a Semi-Presidential Constitution
Ireland: 'O What a Tangled Web...' - Delegation, Accountability, and Executive Power
Italy: Delegation and Accountability in a Changing Parliamentary Democracy
Luxembourg: A Case of More 'Direct' Delegation and Accountability
The Netherlands: Rules and Mores in Delegation and Accountability Relationships
Norway: Virtual Parliamentarism
Portugal: Changing Patterns of Delegation and Accountability under the President's Watchful Eyes
Spain: Delegation and Accountability in a Newly Established Democracy
Sweden: From Separation of Power to Parliamentary Supremacy - and Back Again?
The United Kingdom: Still a Single 'Chain of Command'? The Hollowing Out of the 'Westminster Model'
Section 3: Analysis and Conclusion
Dimensions of Citizen Control
Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy
