Comparative politics [ the principal-agent perspective
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London New York :
Routledge ,
c2008
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| Series: | Routledge research in comparative politics ;
20 |
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : micro foundations of comparative politics
- 2. The states of the world
- 3. Rule of law
- 4. Environmental factors
- 5. Impact of political institutions
- 6. Changing principal-agent institutions
- 7. Party system instability and volatility from the principal-agent perspective
- 8. Regime fitness : on the survival of polities
- 9. The concept of a polity : from the city-state to the empire
- 10. The ancient empires : Oriental despotism or the patrimonial state
- 11. Feudalism : political, economical and modern
- 12. The nation-state and colonial empires
- 13. The regionalisation of the state
- 14. Conclusion : evolutionary advantage of rule of law regimes