This paper provides a comprehensive review of the empirical literature in transaction cost
economics (TCE) across multiple social science disciplines and business fields. We show …

Parliamentary democracy means that the political executive is accountable to the
parliamentary majority. However, when both the parliamentary majority and the cabinet …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management,
this exciting text is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management. Putting the …

Policymaking by coalition governments creates a classic principal‐agent problem.
Coalitions are comprised of parties with divergent preferences who are forced to delegate …

Political scientists know remarkably little about the extent to which legislatures are able to
influence policymaking in parliamentary democracies. In this article, we focus on the …

The ability of parliamentarians to ask questions of members of the executive either in written
form or on the floor of the chamber is a feature of many legislatures. Parliamentary questions …

Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of
Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media …

Abstract Delegation in the European Union (EU) involves a series of principal‐agent
problems, and the various chains of delegation involve voters, parties, parliaments …

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