Saalfeld, ThomasThomasSaalfeld0000-0003-2849-06652019-09-192015-02-032015978-0-415-62675-0https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/21343This handbook article applies an intuitive and informal principal-agent perspective as an organizing framework to provide a comparative description of executive-legislative relations in Europe with a focus on the member states of the European Union.engExecutiveLegislaturesEuropean UnionParlamentarische KontrolleExecutive-legislative relations in Europebookpart