TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strøm,Kaare W.
AU  - Bergman,Torbjörn
AU  - Müller,Wolfgang C.
TI  - Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies
T2  - Comparative politics
SN  - 019829784X
AV  - JN94.A71 .D45 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Europe, Western
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Legislative bodies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages : 747-750) and index; Parliamentary democracy : promise and problems / Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman and Kaare Strøm -- Delegation and its perils / Arthur Lupia -- Parliamentary democracy and delegation / Kaare Strøm -- Democratic delegation and accountability : cross-national patterns / Torbjörn Bergman [and others] -- Austria : imperfect parliamentarism but fully-fledged party democracy / Wolfgang C. Müller -- Belgium : delegation and accountability under partitocratic rule / Lieven De Winter and Patrick Dumont -- Denmark : delegation and accountability in minority situations / Erik Damgaard -- Finland : polarized pluralism in the shadow of a strong president / Tapio Raunio and Matti Wiberg -- France : delegation and accountability in the Fifth Republic / Jean-Louis Thiébault -- Germany : multiple veto points, informal coordination, and problems of hidden action / Thomas Saalfeld -- Greece : 'rationalizing' constitutional powers in a post-dictatorial country / Georgios Trantas [and others] -- Iceland : a parliamentary democracy with a semi-presidential constitution / Svanur Kristjánsson -- Ireland : 'o what a tangled web ... ' : delegation, accountability, and executive power / Paul Mitchell -- Italy : delegation and accountability in a changing parliamentary democracy / Luca Verzichelli -- Luxembourg : a case of more 'direct' delegation and accountability / Patrick Dumont and Lieven De Winter -- The Netherlands : rules and mores in delegation and accountability relationships / Arco Timmermans and Rudy B. Andeweg -- Norway : virtual parliamentarism / Kaare Strøm and Hanne Marthe Narud -- Portugal : changing patterns of delegation and accountability under the president's watchful eyes / Octavio Amorim Neto -- Spain : delegation and accountability in a newly established democracy / Carlos Flores Juberías -- Sweden : from separation of power to parliamentary supremacy -- and back again? / Torbjörn Bergman -- The United Kingdom : still a single 'chain of command'? The hollowing out of the 'Westminster model' / Thomas Saalfeld -- Dimensions of citizen control / Kaare Strøm [and others] -- Challenges to parliamentary democracy / Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller and Torbjörn Bergman
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