Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies

Edited by Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman

Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies

Edited by Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman

Description

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.

Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies

Edited by Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman

Comparative Politics

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Section 1: Introduction and Theory
1. Parliamentary Democracy: Promise and Problems, Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman, and Kaare Strøm
2. Delegation and its Perils, Arthur Lupia
3. Parliamentary Democracy and Delegation, Kaare Strøm
4. Democratic Delegation and Accountability: Cross-National Patterns, Torbjörn Bergman, Wolfgang C. Müller, Kaare Strøm, and Magnus Blomgren
Section 2: Country Chapters
5. Austria: Imperfect Parliamentary Democracy but Fully-Fledged Party Democracy, Wolfgang C. Müller
6. Belgium: Delegation and Accountability under Partitocratic Rule, Lieven de Winter and Patrick Dumont
7. Denmark: Delegation and Accountability in Minority Situations, Erik Damgaard
8. Finland: Polarized Pluralism in the Shadow of a Strong President, Tapio Raunio and Matti Wiberg
9. France: Delegation and Accountability in the Fifth Republic, Jean-Louis Thiébault
10. Germany: Multiple Veto Points, Informal Co-ordination, and Problems of Hidden Action, Thomas Saalfeld
11. Greece: 'Rationalizing' Constitutional Powers in a Post-Dictatorial Country, Georgios Trantas, Paraskevi Zagoriti, Torbjörn Bergman, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Kaare Strøm
12. Iceland: A Parliamentary Democracy with a Semi-Presidential Constitution, Svanur Kristjánsson
13. Ireland: 'O What a Tangled Web...' - Delegation, Accountability, and Executive Power, Paul Mitchell
14. Italy: Delegation and Accountability in a Changing Parliamentary Democracy, Luca Verzichelli
15. Luxembourg: A Case of More 'Direct' Delegation and Accountability, Patrick Dumont and Lieven De Winter
16. The Netherlands: Rules and Mores in Delegation and Accountability Relationships, Arco Timmermans and Rudy B. Andeweg
17. Norway: Virtual Parliamentarism, Kaare Strøm and Hanne Marthe Narud
18. Portugal: Changing Patterns of Delegation and Accountability under the President's Watchful Eyes, Octavio Amorim Neto
19. Spain: Delegation and Accountability in a Newly Established Democracy, Carlos Flores Juberías
20. Sweden: From Separation of Power to Parliamentary Supremacy - and Back Again?, Torbjörn Bergman
21. The United Kingdom: Still a Single 'Chain of Command'? The Hollowing Out of the 'Westminster Model', Thomas Saalfeld
Concluding Section
22. Dimensions of Citizen Control, Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman, and Benjamin Nyblade
23. Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy, Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman

Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies

Edited by Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman

Comparative Politics

Author Information

Contributors:

Rudy B. Andeweg, Professor of Political Science, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Torbjörn Bergman, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Umeå University, Sweden
Magnus Blomgren, Political Science, Umeå University, Sweden
Erik Damgaard, Professor of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Lieven De Winter, Professor of Political Science, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Patrick Dumont, Political Science, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Carlos Flores Juberías, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Valencia, Spain
Svanur Kristjánsson, Professor of Political Science, University of Iceland
Arthur Lupia, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, USA
Paul Mitchell, Lecturer in European Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Wolfgang C. Müller, Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria
Hanne Marthe Narud, Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway
Octavio Amorim Neto, Research Fellow, Brazilian Institute of Economics and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Graduate School of Economics, both at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro
Benjamin Nyblade, Political Science, University of California, San Diego, USA
Tapio Raunio, Professor of Political Science, University of Tampere, Finland
Thomas Saalfeld, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Kaare Strøm, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, USA
Jean-Louis Thiébault, Professor of Political Science, Université Lille II, France
Arco Timmermans, Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
Georgios Trantas, Legal Counsellour on Constitutional and Administrative Law and Independent Researcher in Athens, Greece
Luca Verzichelli, Lecturer in Political Science, University of Siena, Italy
Matti Wiberg, Professor of Political Science, University of Turku, Finland
Paraskevi Zagoriti, Political Science, University of Athens, Greece