Delegation And Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies

, by Strøm, Kaare; Müller, Wolfgang C.; Bergman, Torbjörn

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ISBN: 9780199291601 | 0199291608
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Copyright: 3/23/2006

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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.

List of Figures

xiii

List of Tables

xiv

list of Contributors

xvi

I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORY

1. Parliamentary Democracy: Promise and Problems

(30)

Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman, and Kaare Strøm

2. Delegation and its Perils

(22)

Arthur Lupia

3. Parliamentary Democracy and Delegation

(54)

Kaare Strøm

II. SURVEY

4. Democratic Delegation and Accountability: Cross-national Patterns

109

(112)

Torbjörn Bergman, Wolfgang C. Müller, Kaare Strøm, and Magnus Blomgren

5. Austria: Imperfect Parliamentarism but Fully-fledged Party Democracy

221

(32)

Wolfgang C. Müller

6. Belgium: Delegation and Accountability under Partitocratic Rule

253

(28)

Lieven De Winter and Patrick Dumont

7. Denmark: Delegation and Accountability in Minority Situations

281

(20)

Erik Damgaard

8. Finland: Polarized Pluralism in the Shadow of a Strong President

301

(24)

Tapio Raunio and Maui Wiberg

9. France: Delegation and Accountability in the Fifth Republic

325

(22)

Jean-Louis Thiébault

10. Germany: Multiple Veto Points, Informal Coordination, and Problems of Hidden Action

347

(29)

Thomas Saalfeld

11. Greece: 'Rationalizing' Constitutional Powers in a Post-dictatorial Country

376

(23)

Georgios Trantas, Paraskevi Zagoriti, Torbjörn Bergman, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Kaare Strøm

12. Iceland: A Parliamentary Democracy with a Semi-presidential Constitution

399

(19)

Svanur Kristjánsson

13. Ireland: 'O What a Tangled Web ...'—Delegation, Accountability, and Executive Power

418

(27)

Paul Mitchell

14. Italy: Delegation and Accountability in a Changing Parliamentary Democracy

445

(29)

Luca Verzichelli

15. Luxembourg: A Case of More 'Direct' Delegation and Accountability

474

(24)

Patrick Dumont and Lieven De Winter

16. The Netherlands: Rules and Mores in Delegation and Accountability Relationships

498

(25)

Arco Timmermans and Rudy B. Andeweg

17. Norway: Virtual Parliamentarism

523

(29)

Kaare Strøm and Hanne Marthe Narud

18. Portugal: Changing Patterns of Delegation and Accountability under the President's Watchful Eyes

552

(21)

Octavio Amorim Neto

19. Spain: Delegation and Accountability in a Newly Established Democracy

573

(21)

Carlos Flores Juberias

20. Sweden: From Separation of Power to Parliamentary Supremacy—and Back Again?

594

(26)

Torbjörn Bergman

21. The United Kingdom: Still a Single 'Chain of Command'? The Hollowing Out of the 'Westminster Model'

620

(31)

Thomas Saalfeld

III. ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION

22. Dimensions of Citizen Control

651

(56)

Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman, and Benjamin Nyblade

23. Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy

707

(44)

Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman

Index

751

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