TY - BOOK AU - Braun,Dietmar AU - Gilardi,Fabrizio ED - T&F eBooks. TI - Delegation in contemporary democracies T2 - Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science SN - 9780203306512 PY - 2006/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York PB - Routledge KW - Delegation of powers KW - Public administration KW - Bureaucracy KW - Political aspects KW - Responsibility KW - Rational choice theory KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Delegation in contemporary democracies : introduction / Dietmar Braun and Fabrizio Gilardi -- The (moral) hazards of parliamentary democracy / Kaare Strom, Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman -- Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies : smallness, proximity, and shortcuts / Patrick Dumont and Frédéric Varone -- A theory of efficient delegation / David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran -- A delegation theory for explaining the bureaucratization of public administrations / Victor Lapuente Giné -- Delegation to independent regulatory agencies in Western Europe : credibility, political uncertainty, and diffusion / Fabrizio Gilardi -- Delegation in the distributive policy arena : the case of research policy / Dietmar Braun -- Consequences of legitimising independent regulatory agencies in contemporary democracies : theoretical scenarios / Gül Sosay -- Whose agents? : non-governmental organisations in policy-proposing -- Commissions : agents of government or opposition parties? / Peter Munk Christiansen & Asbjorn Sonne Nrgaard -- Delegation in the European Union : debates and research agenda / Fabio Franchino -- Delegation in contemporary democracies : concluding remarks / Dietmar Braun and Fabrizio Gilardi; Also available in print edition UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203306512 ER -