Comparative politics
Subtitle: the principal-agent perspective
By: Jan-Erik Lane.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780415432061; 9780203935545
Subjects: Comparative government; State, The; Rule of law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introductory chapter: Micro foundations of comparative politics; title: The states of the world; title: Rule of law; title: Environmental factors; title: Impact of political institutions; title: Changing principal-agent institutions; title: Party system instability and volatility from the principal-agent perspective; title: Regime fitness on the survival of polities; title: The concept of a polity : from the city-state to the empire; title: Ancient empires : Oriental despotism or the patrimonial state; title: Feudalism : political, economical, and modern; title: The nation-state and colonial empires; title: The regionalisation of the state; title: Concluding chapter: Evolutionary advantage of rule of law regimes.