Comparative Politics: The Principal-Agent PerspectiveRoutledge, 30/10/2007 - 336 من الصفحات Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites so that they deliver in accordance with the needs and preferences of their principal: the population. This book explores whether there are any evolutionary mechanisms in politics which guide mankind towards the rule of law regime, domestically and globally. It combines a cross-sectional approach with a longitudinal one. Comparing the extent of the rule of law among states, using a set of data from 150 countries concerning political and social variables, the author seeks to understand why there is such a marked difference among states. Taking a state-centred perspective and looking at countries with a population larger than one million people during the post Second World War period, the book examines:
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... Islam and Hinduism 110 3.8 Family systems 113 3.9 Level of affluence: purchasing power parities and gross domestic product, US$ 115 3.10 Analysis of variance: purchasing power parities and gross domestic product 118 3.11 Openness of the ...
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Conditions that support rule of law 97 | |
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Towards an evolutionary regime theory 189 | |
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Rule of law 75 | |
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Index 307 | |