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Comparative Politics : The Principal-Agent Perspective
By: Jan-Erik Lane
| Retail Price: | $158.00 |
| Booktopia Price | $142.20 |
ISBN-13: 9780415432061
ISBN: 0415432065
ISBN: 0415432065
Format:
Other
Date Published: December 2007
Date Published: December 2007
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Description:
This book explores if there are any evolutionary mechanisms in politics which guide mankind towards the rule of law regime, domestically and globally.
This item is categorised by:
- Politics & Government » Comparative Politics
- Law » Laws of Specific Jurisdictions » Constitutional & Administrative Law
- Politics & Government
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Table of Contents:
| Introduction: micro foundations of comparative politics | p. 1 |
| States: stability and performance | p. 33 |
| The states of the world | p. 35 |
| Rule of law | p. 75 |
| Conditions that support rule of law | p. 97 |
| Environmental factors | p. 99 |
| Impact of political institutions | p. 126 |
| Changing principal-agent institutions | p. 152 |
| Party system instability and volatility from the principal-agent perspective | p. 169 |
| Towards an evolutionary regime theory | p. 189 |
| Regime fitness: on the survival of polities | p. 191 |
| The concept of a polity: from the city-state to the empire | p. 201 |
| The ancient empires: Oriental despotism or the patrimonial state | p. 212 |
| Feudalism: political, economical and modern | p. 230 |
| The nation-state and colonial empires | p. 238 |
| Regionalisation of the state | p. 264 |
| Conclusion: evolutionary advantage of rule of law regimes | p. 278 |
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Details:
ISBN: 0415432065
ISBN-13: 9780415432061
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Format: Other
Language: English
Dimensions (cm): 23.622 x 16.002 x 2.286
Weight (kg): 0.206


