Democracy and the rule of law
By: edited by Jose Maria Maravall, Adam Przeworski.
Contributors: Przeworski, Adam.; Maravall, José María.
Series: Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Rule of law -- Congresses.; Democracy -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Lineages of the rule of law / Stephen Holmes; value: Power, rules, and compliance / Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca; value: Obedience and obligation in the Rechtsstaat / Michel Troper; value: A postscript to "Political foundations of democracy and the rule of law" / Barry R. Weingast; value: Why do political parties obey results of elections / Adam Przeworski; value: The majoritarian reading of the rule of law / Roberto Gargarella / How can the rule of law rule : cost imposition through decentralized mechanisms / Catalina Smulovitz; value: Dictatorship and the rule of law : rules and military power in Pinochet's Chile / Robert Barros; value: Courts as an instrument of horizontal accountability : the case of latin Europe / Carlo Guarnieri; value: Rule of democracy and rule of law / John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino; value: The rule of law as a political weapon / Jose Maria Maravall; value: The rule of law and the problem of legal reform in Michel de Montaigne's Essais / Biancamaria Fontana.