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.
Author(s): Dietmar Braun
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 256
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
Series editor’s preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
1. Introduction......Page 18
Part I: The Standard Chain of Delegation......Page 42
2. The (Moral) Hazards of Parliamentary Democracy......Page 44
3. Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies......Page 69
4. A Theory of Efficient Delegation......Page 94
5. A Delegation Theory for Explaining the Bureaucratization of Public Administrations......Page 116
Part II: The Next Steps in Delegation......Page 140
6. Delegation to Independent Regulatory Agencies in Western Europe......Page 142
7. Delegation in the Distributive Policy Arena......Page 163
8. Consequences of Legitimizing Independent Regulatory Agencies in Contemporary Democracies......Page 188
9. Whose Agents? Non-governmental Organizations in Policy-proposing Commissions:Agents of Government or Opposition Parties?......Page 208
10. Delegation in the European Union......Page 233
11. Conclusion......Page 256
Index......Page 269
