This volume examines key issues about the politics of delegation: how and why delegation has taken place; the design of delegation to non-majoritarian institutions; the consequences of delegation to non-majoritarian institutions and their

Chapter 1 Theory and Practice of Delegation to Non-Majoritarian Institutions, MarkThatcher, Alec StoneSweet; Chapter 2 Delegation to Supranational Institutions: Why, How, and with What Consequences?, JonasTallberg; Chapter 3 Rational Fictions: Central Bank Independence and the Social Logic of Delegation, Kathleen R.McNamara; Chapter 4 Constitutional Courts and Parliamentary Democracy, Alec StoneSweet; Chapter 5 Institutional Choice and Bureaucratic Autonomy in Germany, MarianDÖhler; Chapter 6 Delegation to Independent Regulatory Agencies: Pressures, Functions and Contextual Mediation, MarkThatcher; Chapter 7 The Unanticipated Consequences of Creating Independent Competition Agencies, StephenWilks, IanBartle; Chapter 8 Judicial Delegation Doctrines: The US, Britain, and France, MartinShapiro; Chapter 9 Learning from the Americanists (Again): Theory and Method in the Study of Delegation, Mark A.Pollack;