Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies (Comparative Politics)

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: ‘Rationalizing’ Constitutional Powers in a Post-dictatorial Country......Page 395
12. Iceland: A Parliamentary Democracy with a Semi-presidential Constitution......Page 418
13. Ireland: ‘O What a Tangled Web. . .’—Delegation, Accountability, and Executive Power......Page 437
14. Italy: Delegation and Accountability in a Changing Parliamentary Democracy......Page 464
15. Luxembourg: A Case of More ‘Direct’ 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 President’s Watchful Eyes......Page 571
19. Spain: Delegation and Accountability in a Newly Established Democracy......Page 592
20. Sweden: From Separation of Power to Parliamentary Supremacy—and Back Again?......Page 613
21. The United Kingdom: Still a Single ‘Chain of Command’? The Hollowing Out of the ‘Westminster Model’......Page 639
III. ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION......Page 668
22. Dimensions of Citizen Control......Page 670
23. Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy......Page 726
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