Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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; 8. Finland: Polarized Pluralism in the Shadow of a Strong President.
  • 9. France: Delegation and Accountability in the Fifth Republic10. Germany: Multiple Veto Points, Informal Coordination, and Problems of Hidden Action; 11. Greece: 'Rationalizing' Constitutional Powers in a Post-dictatorial Country; 12. Iceland: A Parliamentary Democracy with a Semi-presidential Constitution; 13. Ireland: 'O What a Tangled Web. . .'-Delegation, Accountability, and Executive Power; 14. Italy: Delegation and Accountability in a Changing Parliamentary Democracy; 15. Luxembourg: A Case of More 'Direct' Delegation and Accountability.
  • 16. The Netherlands: Rules and Mores in Delegation and Accountability Relationships17. Norway: Virtual Parliamentarism; 18. Portugal: Changing Patterns of Delegation and Accountability under the President's Watchful Eyes; 19. Spain: Delegation and Accountability in a Newly Established Democracy; 20. Sweden: From Separation of Power to Parliamentary Supremacy-and Back Again?; 21. The United Kingdom: Still a Single 'Chain of Command'? The Hollowing Out of the 'Westminster Model'; III. ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION; 22. Dimensions of Citizen Control; 23. Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy; Index; A.
  • BC; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.