Delegation And Accountability In Parliamentary Democracies

Author : Kaare Strøm,Wolfgang C. Müller,Torbjörn Bergman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191522970

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Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies by Kaare Strøm,Wolfgang C. Müller,Torbjörn Bergman Pdf

Parliamentary democracy is the most common way of organizing delegation and accountability in contemporary democracies. Yet knowledge of this type of regime has been incomplete and often unsystematic. Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies offers new conceptual clarity on the topic. Taking principal-agent theory as its framework, the work illustrates how a variety of apparently unrelated representation issues can now be understood. This procedure allows scholarship to move well beyond what have previously been cloudy and confusing debates aimed at defining the virtues and perils of parliamentarism. This new empirical investigation includes all seventeen West European parliamentary democracies. These countries are compared in a series of cross-national tables and figures, and seventeen country chapters provide a wealth of information on four discrete stages in the delegation process: delegation from voters to parliamentary representatives, delegation from parliament to the prime minister and cabinet, delegation within the cabinet, and delegation from cabinet ministers to civil servants. Each chapter illustrates how political parties serve as bonding instruments which align incentives and permit citizen control of the policy process. This is complemented by a consideration of external constraints, such as courts, central banks, corporatism, and the European Union, which can impinge on national-level democratic delegation. The concluding chapters go on to consider how well the problems of delegation and accountability are solved in these countries. Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies provides an unprecedented guide to contemporary European parliamentary democracies. As democratic governance is transformed at the dawn of the twenty-first century, it illustrates the important challenges faced by the parliamentary democracies of Western Europe.

Author : Torbjorn Bergman,Erik Damgaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136332876

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Delegation and Accountability in European Integration by Torbjorn Bergman,Erik Damgaard Pdf

Analyzing the effects of the European Union on national decision-making and the chain of delegation and accountability, the authors look at Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway. The analyses are based on principal-agent perspective.

Author : Kaare Strøm,Torbjörn Bergman,Wolfgang C. Müller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199291601

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Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies by Kaare Strøm,Torbjörn Bergman,Wolfgang C. Müller Pdf

Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary issues in comparative government and politics. The General Editors are Max Kaase, Professor of Political Science, Vice President and Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, International University Bremen, Germany; and Kenneth Newton, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Southampton. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. Today, parliamentarism is the most common form of democratic government. Yet knowledge of this regime type has been incomplete and often unsystematic. Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies offers new conceptual clarity on the topic. This 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 their representatives. 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. This new empirical investigation includes all seventeen West European parliamentary democracies. These countries are compared in a series of cross-national tables and figures, and seventeen country chapters provide a wealth of information on four discrete stages in the delegation process: delegation from voters to parliamentary representatives, delegation from parliament to the prime minister and cabinet, delegation within the cabinet, and delegation from cabinet ministers to civil servants. Each chapter illustrates how political parties serve as bonding instruments which align incentives and permit citizen control of the policy process. This is complemented by a consideration of external constraints. The concluding chapters go on to consider how well the problems of delegation and accountability are solved in these countries. They show that political systems with cohesive and competitive parties and strong mechanisms of external constraint solve their democratic agency problems better than countries with weaker control mechanisms. But in many countries political parties are now weakening, and parliamentary systems face new democratic challenges. Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies provides an unprecedented guide to contemporary European parliamentary democracies. As democratic governance is transformed at the dawn of the twenty-first century, it illustrates the important challenges faced by the parliamentary democracies of Western Europe.

Author : Dietmar Braun,Fabrizio Gilardi
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415353432

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Delegation in Contemporary Democracies by Dietmar Braun,Fabrizio Gilardi Pdf

Written by leading specialists from Europe and the US, this unique text presents a unified view of political delegation, bringing together a wide range of literature to provide a complete and synthetic analysis of delegation in political systems.

Author : Torbjörn Bergman,Kaare Strøm
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472117475

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The Madisonian Turn by Torbjörn Bergman,Kaare Strøm Pdf

Parliamentary democracy is the most common regime type in the contemporary political world, but the quality of governance depends on effective parliamentary oversight and strong political parties. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden have traditionally been strongholds of parliamentary democracy. In recent years, however, critics have suggested that new challenges such as weakened popular attachment, the advent of cartel parties, the judicialization of politics, and European integration have threatened the institutions of parliamentary democracy in the Nordic region. This volume examines these claims and their implications. The authors find that the Nordic states have moved away from their previous resemblance to a Westminster model toward a form of parliamentary democracy with more separation-of-powers features—a Madisonian model. These features are evident both in vertical power relations (e.g., relations with the European Union) and horizontal ones (e.g., increasingly independent courts and central banks). Yet these developments are far from uniform and demonstrate that there may be different responses to the political challenges faced by contemporary Western democracies.

Author : Peter Aucoin,Mark D. Jarvis,Canada School of Public Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : MINN:31951D027401729

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Modernizing Government Accountability by Peter Aucoin,Mark D. Jarvis,Canada School of Public Service Pdf

This publication examines the basic architecture of accountability in the Canadian system of governance and public administration in the light of changes in the practice of governance and public administration. This architecture is built upon the foundation of "responsible government," the constitutional convention that provides the democratic basis of the Canadian system of parliamentary government.

Author : David Beetham
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9789291423668

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Parliament and Democracy in the Twenty-first Century by David Beetham Pdf

Author : Katrin Auel,Arthur Benz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136753497

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The Europeanisation of Parliamentary Democracy by Katrin Auel,Arthur Benz Pdf

This groundbreaking new study shows how the process of creating an ever closer European Union affects not only the policy-making, but also the politics and polity of the Member States. Empirical studies on the domestic impact of Europe identified different forms of Europeanization due to alternative mechanisms of internalising the new norms and rules. Although many studies have since focused on the question of how, to what degree, in what direction, at what pace, and at what point of time "Europe matters", the Europeanization of one particular structural determinant of the Member States, namely the system of parliamentary democracy, is still under-researched. This is all the more astonishing as democracy in the EU depends to a large extent on the democratic legitimacy of procedures at the national level. This volume addresses the key issue of the Europeanisation of parliamentary systems and thus contributes to the ongoing debate on the parliamentary dimension of the European Union. It brings together theoretical concepts as well as cross-national empirical research on the Europeanization of the member states’ parliamentary systems, focussing on different elements such as structures, procedures and decision-making processes as well as on the question how parliamentarians as actors react to these changes and actively shape this Europeanization. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Legislative Studies.

Author : Adam Przeworski,Susan C. Stokes,Bernard Manin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521646162

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Democracy, Accountability, and Representation by Adam Przeworski,Susan C. Stokes,Bernard Manin Pdf

6 Party Government and Responsiveness: James A. Stimson

Author : Torbjorn Bergman,Erik Damgaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136332807

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Delegation and Accountability in European Integration by Torbjorn Bergman,Erik Damgaard Pdf

Analyzing the effects of the European Union on national decision-making and the chain of delegation and accountability, the authors look at Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway. The analyses are based on principal-agent perspective.

Author : Marc van der Hulst
Publisher : Inter-Parliamentary Union
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Legislators
ISBN : 9789291420568

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The Parliamentary Mandate by Marc van der Hulst Pdf

Undersøgelse af parlamentsmandatet baseret på svar på IPU-spørgeskema fra 134 parlamenter. Svarene er sammenlignet systematisk med de respektive forfatninger, lovgivning og parlamentsforretningsordener.

Author : Wolfgang C. Müller,Hanne Marthe Narud
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461465881

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Party Governance and Party Democracy by Wolfgang C. Müller,Hanne Marthe Narud Pdf

​​Given the centrality of political parties in modern democracies, most research on these systems either directly address their internal functioning and activities or question their critical role. Political science has moved from describing institutions to the thorough analysis of behavior within these institutions and the interactions between them. The inevitable consequences of the maturing and institutionalization of the discipline of political science in many countries include the forming of sub-fields and specialized research communities. At the same time the number of democracies has vastly increased since the 1980s and although not each attempt at democratization was eventually successful, more heterogeneous systems with some form of party competition exist than ever before. As a consequence, the literature addressing the large issues of party democracy spreads over many research fields and has become difficult to master for individual students of party democracy and party governance. The present volume sets out to review the behavior and larger role of political parties in modern democracies. In so doing the book takes its departure from the idea that the main contribution of political parties to the working of democracy is their role as vehicles of political competition in systems of government. Consequently the focus is not merely in the internal functioning of political parties, but rather their behavior the electoral, legislative, and governmental arenas. Thus several chapters address how political parties perform within the existing institutional frameworks. One more chapter looks at the role of political parties in building and adapting these institutions. Finally, two chapters explicitly address the party contributions to democracy in established and new democracies, respectively.​​

Author : Jean-Benoit Pilet,William Cross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317929451

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The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies by Jean-Benoit Pilet,William Cross Pdf

This book explores the ways in which political parties, in contemporary parliamentary democracies, choose their leaders and then subsequently hold them accountable. The authors provide a comprehensive examination of party leadership selection and accountability both through examination of parties and countries in different institutional settings and through a holistic analysis of the role of party leaders and the methods through which they assume, and exit, the office. The collection includes essays on Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Norway and the United Kingdom which have important differences in their party systems, their degree of democratization, the role assigned to party leaders and their methods of leadership selection. Each country examination provides significant data relating to party rules and norms of leadership selection, leadership tenures and leadership contests. The book concludes with a chapter that merges the country data analyses to provide a truly comparative examination of the theoretical questions underlying the volume. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of legislative studies, elections, democracy, political parties, party systems, political elites and comparative politics.

Author : Darcy W.E. Allen,Chris Berg,Aaron M. Lane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498579643

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Cryptodemocracy by Darcy W.E. Allen,Chris Berg,Aaron M. Lane Pdf

A cryptodemocracy is cryptographically-secured collective choice infrastructure on which individuals coordinate their voting property rights. Drawing on economic and political theory, a cryptodemocracy is a more fluid and emergent form of collective choice. This book examines these theoretical characteristics before exploring specific applications of a cryptodemocracy in labor bargaining and corporate governance. The analysis of the characteristics of a more emergent and contractual democratic process has implications for a wide range of collective choice.

Author : Fabrizio Gilardi,Dietmar Braun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134261413

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Delegation in Contemporary Democracies by Fabrizio Gilardi,Dietmar Braun Pdf

Delegation is an ubiquitous social phenomenon linked to the growing differentiation of modern societies. Delegation is one of several different modes of organisation that exist to make collective action successful, but has been overlooked and under-researched. Using a rational choice institutional analysis and principal agent models, this book brings literature on delegation to bureaucracy, electorate to legislature to government within representative democracy together with literature on new forms of delegation such as non-majoritarian institutions, to provide a more complete and synthetic analysis of delegation in political systems. With a broad and comparative approach, this is an important volume for advanced students, researchers and professionals concerned with delegation in the areas of public policy, public administration and democratic theory.