Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies / edited by Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller and Torbjörn Bergman.

Originally published.: 2003.

"This paperback edition contains a few corrections, most of which had already been included in the second printing of the hard cover version published in 2004. None of these corrections change any of our interpretations or conclusions"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Parliamentary democracy : promise and problems / Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman and Kaare Strøm -- Delegation and its perils / Arthur Lupia -- Parliamentary democracy and delegation / Kaare Strøm -- Democratic delegation and accountability : cross-national patterns / Torbjörn Bergman ... [and others] -- Austria : imperfect parliamentarism but fully-fledged party democracy / Wolfgang C. Müller -- Belgium : delegation and accountability under partitocratic rule / Lieven De Winter and Patrick Dumont -- Denmark : delegation and accountability in minority situations / Erik Damgaard -- Finland : polarized pluralism in the shadow of a strong president / Tapio Raunio and Matti Wiberg -- France : delegation and accountability in the Fifth Republic / Jean-Louis Thiébault -- Germany : multiple veto points, informal coordination, and problems of hidden action / Thomas Saalfeld -- Greece : 'rationalizing' constitutional powers in a post-dictatorial country / Georgios Trantas ... [and others] -- Iceland : a parliamentary democracy with a semi-presidential constitution / Svanur Kristjánsson -- Ireland : 'o what a tangled web ...' : delegation, accountability, and executive power / Paul Mitchell -- Italy : delegation and accountability in a changing parliamentary democracy / Luca Verzichelli -- Luxembourg : a case of more 'direct' delegation and accountability / Patrick Dumont and Lieven De Winter -- The Netherlands : rules and mores in delegation and accountability relationships / Arco Timmermans and Rudy B. Andeweg -- Norway : virtual parliamentarism / Kaare Strøm and Hanne Marthe Narud -- Portugal : changing patterns of delegation and accountability under the president's watchful eyes / Octavio Amorim Neto -- Spain : delegation and accountability in a newly established democracy / Carlos Flores Juberías -- Sweden : from separation of power to parliamentary supremacy - and back again? / Torbjörn Bergman -- The United Kingdom : still a single 'chain of command'? The hollowing out of the 'Westminster model' / Thomas Saalfeld -- Dimensions of citizen control / Kaare Strøm ... [and others] -- Challenges to parliamentary democracy / Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller and Torbjörn Bergman .