Changing Rules of Delegation: A Contest for Power in Comitology

by Carl Fredrik Bergstrom, Adrienne Héritier, Carina Bischoff, et al.

With each legislative issue, legislators have to decide whether to delegate decision-making to the executive and/or to expert bodies in order to flesh out the details of this legislation, or, alternatively, to spell out all aspects of this decision in legislation proper. The reasons why to delegate have been of prime interest to political science. The debate has concentrated on principal-agent theory to explain why politicians delegate decision-making...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199653623
• ISBN13: 9780199653621
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"