Comparative politics the principal-agent perspective /
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| Format: | Electronic |
| 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: | View fulltext via EzAccess MyiLibrary |
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.