LEADER 05282nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910965538303321 005 20251116214813.0 010 $a1-282-26828-7 010 $a9786612268281 010 $a0-19-152297-X 010 $a1-4237-6800-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000461438 035 $a(EBL)3053486 035 $a(OCoLC)67231261 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000136292 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134389 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136292 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10084704 035 $a(PQKB)10699797 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000086226 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11122060 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000086226 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10029593 035 $a(PQKB)11759900 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4964877 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL226828 035 $a(OCoLC)1024286857 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053486 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4964877 035 $a(BIP)46209268 035 $a(BIP)13109525 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000461438 100 $a20040407d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDelegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies /$fedited by Kaare Str m, Wolfgang C. Muller, Torbjorn Bergman 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (783 p.) 225 0 $aComparative politics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-19-929160-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Contributors""; ""I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORY""; ""1. Parliamentary Democracy: Promise and Problems""; ""2. Delegation and its Perils""; ""3. Parliamentary Democracy and Delegation""; ""II. SURVEY""; ""4. Democratic Delegation and Accountability: Cross-national Patterns""; ""5. Austria: Imperfect Parliamentarism but Fully-fledged Party Democracy""; ""6. Belgium: Delegation and Accountability under Partitocratic Rule""; ""7. Denmark: Delegation and Accountability in Minority Situations"" 327 $a""8. Finland: Polarized Pluralism in the Shadow of a Strong President""""9. France: Delegation and Accountability in the Fifth Republic""; ""10. Germany: Multiple Veto Points, Informal Coordination, and Problems of Hidden Action""; ""11. Greece: a???Rationalizinga??? Constitutional Powers in a Post-dictatorial Country""; ""12. Iceland: A Parliamentary Democracy with a Semi-presidential Constitution""; ""13. Ireland: a???O What a Tangled Web. . .a???a???Delegation, Accountability, and Executive Power""; ""14. Italy: Delegation and Accountability in a Changing Parliamentary Democracy"" 327 $a""15. Luxembourg: A Case of More a???Directa??? Delegation and Accountability""""16. The Netherlands: Rules and Mores in Delegation and Accountability Relationships""; ""17. Norway: Virtual Parliamentarism""; ""18. Portugal: Changing Patterns of Delegation and Accountability under the Presidenta???s Watchful Eyes""; ""19. Spain: Delegation and Accountability in a Newly Established Democracy""; ""20. Sweden: From Separation of Power to Parliamentary Supremacya???and Back Again?""; ""21. The United Kingdom: Still a Single a???Chain of Commanda???? The Hollowing Out of the a???Westminster Modela???"" 327 $a""III. ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION""""22. Dimensions of Citizen Control""; ""23. Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z"" 330 $aThis book argues that representative democracies can be understood as chains of delegation and accountability between citizens and politicians. Under parliamentary democracy, this chain of delegation is simple but also long and indirect. Principal-agent theory helps us to understand the perils of democratic delegation, which include the problems of adverse selection and moral hazard. Citizens in democratic states, therefore, need institutional mechanisms by which they can control theirrepresentatives. The most important such control mechanisms are on the one hand political parties and on the other external constraints such as courts, central banks, referendums, and supranational institutions such as those of the European Union. Traditionally, parliamentary democracies have relied heavily on political parties and presidential systems more on external constraints. 410 0$aCounterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language 606 $aRepresentative government and representation$zEurope$vCross-cultural studies 606 $aLegislative bodies$zEurope 615 0$aRepresentative government and representation 615 0$aLegislative bodies 676 $a321.8094 701 $aStrm$b Kaare$0254549 701 $aMu?ller$b Wolfgang C.$f1957-$0254548 701 $aBergman$b Torbjo?rn$01031008 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965538303321 996 $aDelegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies$94464044 997 $aUNINA