| Delegation in Contemporary Democracies Contributor(s): Gilardi, Fabrizio (Editor), Braun, Dietmar (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415353432 ISBN-13: 9780415353434 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2006 Annotation: Delegation is a 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 will be an important volume for advanced students, researchers and professionals concerned with delegation in the areas of public policy, public administration and democratic theory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Political Science | Public Affairs & Administration |
| Dewey: 321.801 |
| LCCN: 2005013694 |
| Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.36" W x 9.22" (1.16 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |