Delegation in contemporary democracies
By: edited by Dietmar Braun and Fabrizio Gilardi.
Contributors: Braun, Dietmar.; Gilardi, Fabrizio.
Series: Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ;; 43
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Delegation of powers; Public administration; Bureaucracy -- Political aspects; Responsibility; Rational choice theory -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Delegation in contemporary democracies : introduction / Dietmar Braun and Fabrizio Gilardi; title: The (moral) hazards of parliamentary democracy / Kaare Strom, Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman; title: Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies : smallness, proximity, and shortcuts / Patrick Dumont and Frédéric Varone; title: A theory of efficient delegation / David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran; title: A delegation theory for explaining the bureaucratization of public administrations / Victor Lapuente Giné; title: Delegation to independent regulatory agencies in Western Europe : credibility, political uncertainty, and diffusion / Fabrizio Gilardi; title: Delegation in the distributive policy arena : the case of research policy / Dietmar Braun; title: Consequences of legitimising independent regulatory agencies in contemporary democracies : theoretical scenarios / Gül Sosay; title: Whose agents? : non-governmental organisations in policy-proposing; title: Commissions : agents of government or opposition parties? / Peter Munk Christiansen & Asbjorn Sonne Nrgaard; title: Delegation in the European Union : debates and research agenda / Fabio Franchino; title: Delegation in contemporary democracies : concluding remarks / Dietmar Braun and Fabrizio Gilardi.