Jan-Erik Lane

Comparative Politics

The Principal-Agent Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores, using a set of data from 150 countries, whether there are any evolutionary mechanisms in politics that guide mankind towards the rule of law regime, domestically and globally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780415586788
• ISBN-10: 041558678X
• Artikelnr.: 30365651

Autorenporträt

Jan Erik-Lane, University of Freiburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Micro Foundations of Comparative Politics Section 1: States:
Stability and Performance 1. The States of the World 2. Rule of Law
Section 2: Conditions that Support Rule of Law 3. Environmental Factors 4.
Impact of Political Institutions 5. Changing Principal-Agent Institutions
6. Party System Instability and Volatility from the Principal-Agent
Perspective Section 3: Towards Evolutionary Regime Theory 7. Regime Fitness
on the Survival of Polities 8. The Concept of a Polity: From the City-State
to the Empire 9. Ancient Empires, Oriental Despotism or the Patrimonial
State 10. Feudalism: Political, Economical and Modern 11. The Nation-State
and Colonial Empires 12. The Regionalisation of the State. Conclusion:
Evolutionary Advantage of Rule of Law Regimes