01750pab a2200169 454500008004000000100002200040245009600062260000900158300001400167520120800181650002801389773002601417908000601443909001001449999001701459952010401476180718b2009   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aFlinders, Matthew  aTheory and method in the study of delegation: three dominant traditions ( a review article)  c2009  ap.955-71.  aThis article focuses on the theories and methods that have been developed and deployed by scholars in order to understand both the cause and effect of delegation within state systems. It identifies three dominant traditions in the study of delegation, each of which reflects a certain disciplinary lineage as well as great variety in terms of ontological, epistemological and methodological positions. The aim of this article is not to make any normative claims about the innate superiority of any particular approach but to instead argue in favour of a pluralistic methodology which is sensitive to the layered quality of knowledge. By way of forging a sense of a shared enemy or weakness, the article concludes by arguing that all three traditions are united by their relative failure to study the logic of delegation and the power of ideas. In essence, each of the traditions has focused too heavily on what could be termed the politics of delegation (that is, the secondary consequences of delegation) and has, as a result, failed to focus attention on the politicization of delegation in terms of locating the basic logic of delegation back within the contours of public contestation. - Reproduced.  aDelegation of authority  aPublic Administration  aN  a85421  c85421d85421  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 87, Issue no: 4pAR85881r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR