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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... Western Europe, (3) Eastern Europe, (4) other occidentals: North America and Australia plus New Zealand as well as Israel, (5) South Asia, (6) Sub-Saharan Africa, (7) Muslim non-Arab, (8) Latin America, (9) Turkish: Turkey and Central ...
... Western elections, for instance, the mass media sometimes play a major role in influencing the scoring of the winning agent in elections. Institutional mechanism: rule of law A number of persuasive arguments have been launched stating ...
... Western countries offer high levels of participation while at the same time having liberal means of government without being either conservative or radical concerning the ends of government policies. S.E. Finer divides the states of the ...
... Western market economy can bring about a major rise in the output of goods and services. “Modern capitalism” according to Weber is a highly institutionalised phenomenon, being driven by a set of transparent rules that set it apart from ...
... Western Europe? When did a kind of modern-type state appear for the first time? The question of the origins of the state concept remains a topic for vivid discussion and disagreement, as some would deny that there have ever existed any ...
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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 | |