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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... survival of polities 191 Introduction 191 Polity forms, fitness and evolutionary mechanisms 192 Capacity 194 Efficacy and legitimacy of a political regime 197 Conclusion 198 8 The concept of a polity: from the city-state to the empire ...
... regimes Can stable authoritarian regimes survive? 279 Politics as principal–agent contracting 281 Conclusion 287 Bibliography Index 230 238 264 278 289 307 Illustrations Figures 5.1 GDP growth 1992 to 1999 and economic x Contents.
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Micro foundations of comparative politics | 1 |
States | 33 |
Conditions that support rule of law | 97 |
Towards an evolutionary regime theory | 189 |
Evolutionary advantage of rule of law regimes | 278 |
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