Delegation in Contemporary Democracies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415353434)

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: Fabrizio Gilardi
ISBN-10: 0415353432
ISBN-13: 9780415353434
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2006
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.36w x 0.79d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 186