Comparative politics the principal-agent perspective /

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Main Author: Lane, Jan-Erik
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, c2008.
Series:Routledge research in comparative politics ; 20
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : micro foundations of comparative politics
  • The states of the world
  • Rule of law
  • Environmental factors
  • Impact of political institutions
  • Changing principal-agent institutions
  • Party system instability and volatility from the principal-agent perspective
  • Regime fitness : on the survival of polities
  • The concept of a polity : from the city-state to the empire
  • The ancient empires : Oriental despotism or the patrimonial state
  • Feudalism : political, economical and modern
  • The nation-state and colonial empires
  • The regionalisation of the state
  • Conclusion : evolutionary advantage of rule of law regimes.