โ Scribed by Kaare Strom, Wolfgang C. Muller, Torbjorn Bergman
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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.
Contents......Page 12
List of Figures......Page 14
List of Tables......Page 15
List of Contributors......Page 17
I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORY......Page 20
1. Parliamentary Democracy: Promise and Problems......Page 22
2. Delegation and its Perils......Page 52
3. Parliamentary Democracy and Delegation......Page 74
II. SURVEY......Page 126
4. Democratic Delegation and Accountability: Cross-national Patterns......Page 128
5. Austria: Imperfect Parliamentarism but Fully-fledged Party Democracy......Page 240
6. Belgium: Delegation and Accountability under Partitocratic Rule......Page 272
7. Denmark: Delegation and Accountability in Minority Situations......Page 300
8. Finland: Polarized Pluralism in the Shadow of a Strong President......Page 320
9. France: Delegation and Accountability in the Fifth Republic......Page 344
10. Germany: Multiple Veto Points, Informal Coordination, and Problems of Hidden Action......Page 366
11. Greece: โRationalizingโ Constitutional Powers in a Post-dictatorial Country......Page 395
12. Iceland: A Parliamentary Democracy with a Semi-presidential Constitution......Page 418
13. Ireland: โO What a Tangled Web. . .โโDelegation, Accountability, and Executive Power......Page 437
14. Italy: Delegation and Accountability in a Changing Parliamentary Democracy......Page 464
15. Luxembourg: A Case of More โDirectโ Delegation and Accountability......Page 493
16. The Netherlands: Rules and Mores in Delegation and Accountability Relationships......Page 517
17. Norway: Virtual Parliamentarism......Page 542
18. Portugal: Changing Patterns of Delegation and Accountability under the Presidentโs Watchful Eyes......Page 571
19. Spain: Delegation and Accountability in a Newly Established Democracy......Page 592
20. Sweden: From Separation of Power to Parliamentary Supremacyโand Back Again?......Page 613
21. The United Kingdom: Still a Single โChain of Commandโ? The Hollowing Out of the โWestminster Modelโ......Page 639
III. ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION......Page 668
22. Dimensions of Citizen Control......Page 670
23. Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy......Page 726
B......Page 770
C......Page 771
E......Page 773
G......Page 774
I......Page 775
L......Page 776
M......Page 777
N......Page 778
P......Page 779
R......Page 780
S......Page 781
T......Page 782
Z......Page 783
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