| Author | : Jan-Erik Lane |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2007-10-30 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1134082495 |
| Pages | : 336 pages |
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: The stability and performance of states The conditions for the rule of law regime: economic, social, cultural and institutional ones The evolution of governments towards rule of law Comparative Politics - The Principle-Agent Perspective will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, government, political theory and law.
| Author | : Howard J. Wiarda |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Release Date | : 2005 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780415330930 |
| Pages | : 430 pages |
| Author | : Todd Landman |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Release Date | : 2003 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780415272698 |
| Pages | : 292 pages |
Explores the importance of comparative politics, discusses different comparative methods, investigates the big issues of today and looks forward to the key challenges for comparative politics over the next century.
| Author | : Daniele Caramani |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Release Date | : 2017-03-30 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0198737424 |
| Pages | : 624 pages |
An outstanding group of internationally-renowned comparative political scientists provide a substantive introduction to comparative politics. Thematic in organisation, readers are guided through a comprehensive analysis of the core methods, theories, and concepts in comparative politics. An unrivalled amount of empirical material in the text and on the supporting website illustrates key similarities and differences of political systems inpractice. The wealth of empirical data also encourages students to go beyond the "what" of comparison to the "how". Combining cutting edge treatment of theories and truly global geographical coverage, this exciting textbook is essential reading for all comparative politics students.
| Author | : J. C. Johari |
| Publisher | : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd |
| Release Date | : 1982 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9788120704688 |
| Pages | : 600 pages |
| Author | : B. Guy Peters |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Release Date | : 1998-10 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780814766682 |
| Pages | : 262 pages |
This book examines the issues involved in the attempts to compare political systems, and discusses how the methods and results of comparative politics can be improved.
| Author | : Hans-Dieter Klingemann |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Release Date | : 2009-02-05 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0199217351 |
| Pages | : 429 pages |
The comparative study of the impact of institutions on individual political behaviour is a neglected area on the agenda of (neo) institutionalism. Do institutions really do what they ought to do? This crucial question has gone largely unanswered. Institutions cannot act by themselves. They do so through the behaviour of actors. The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) was set up to systematically deal with the question of the impact ofinstitutions on political behaviour. It is among the first to address the problems involved properly by providing comparative data on the micro- and the macro-level to study electoral behaviour empirically across a broad range of institutional contexts.
| Author | : Paul F. Steinberg,Stacy D. VanDeveer |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Release Date | : 2012 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0262195852 |
| Pages | : 424 pages |
Combining the theoretical tools of comparative politics with the substantive concerns of environmental policy, experts explore responses to environmental problems across nations and political systems.
| Author | : Susan Carol Stokes |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Release Date | : 2007 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780199278480 |
| Pages | : 1021 pages |
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by 48 top scholars in the discipline of comparative politics
| Author | : Jeffrey Kopstein,Mark Lichbach |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Release Date | : 2000-08-15 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780521633567 |
| Pages | : 429 pages |
Why are the countries of the world governed so differently? How did this diversity of political orders come about? Will liberal capitalism spread farther around the globe in the 21st century? These are the questions that guide this new introductory text to comparative politics. Cast through the lens of ten historically grounded country studies, it illustrates and explains how the three major concepts of comparative political analysis--interests, identities, and institutions--shape the politics of nations. This textbook provides students with the conceptual tools and historical background they need to understand the politics of today's complex world.
| Author | : Jennifer Gandhi,Rubén Ruiz-Rufino |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2015-04-10 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1317551796 |
| Pages | : 448 pages |
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions (HCPI) is designed to serve as a comprehensive reference guide to our accumulated knowledge and the cutting edge of scholarship about political institutions in the comparative context. It differs from existing handbooks in that it focuses squarely on institutions but also discusses how they intersect with the study of mass behaviour and explain important outcomes, drawing on the perspective of comparative politics. The Handbook is organized into three sections: The first section, consisting of six chapters, is organized around broad theoretical and empirical challenges affecting the study of institutions. It highlights the major issues that emerge among scholars defining, measuring, and analyzing institutions. The second section includes fifteen chapters, each of which handles a different substantive institution of importance in comparative politics. This section covers traditional topics, such as electoral rules and federalism, as well as less conventional but equally important areas, including authoritarian institutions, labor market institutions, and the military. Each chapter not only provides a summary of our current state of knowledge on the topic, but also advances claims that emphasise the research frontier on the topic and that should encourage greater investigation. The final section, encompassing seven chapters, examines the relationship between institutions and a variety of important outcomes, such as political violence, economic performance, and voting behavior. The idea is to consider what features of the political, sociological, and economic world we understand better because of the scholarly attention to institutions. Featuring contributions from leading researchers in the field from the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere, this Handbook will be of great interest to all students and scholars of political institutions, political behaviour and comparative politics. Jennifer Gandhi is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Emory University. Rubén Ruiz-Rufino is Lecturer in International Politics, Department of Political Economy, King’s College London.
| Author | : Jan W. van Deth |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780415192453 |
| Pages | : 278 pages |
This text tackles the issues involved in and explores the strategies to deal with many of the problems of establishing equivalence when conducting comparative research in politics.