Patterns of Democracy
Subtitle: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: July 11, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780300078930
Subjects: Political economy; Political structures: democracy; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / Reference; Politics / Current Events; Comparative government; Democracy; Politics/International Relations
First sentence: There are many ways in which, in principle, a democracy can be organized and run; in practice, too, modern democracies exhibit a variety of formal governmental institutions, like legislatures and courts, as well as political party and interest group systems.