Comparative Politics: The Principal-Agent Perspective Contributor(s): Lane, Jan-Erik (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415432065 ISBN-13: 9780415432061 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $190.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Reference - Political Science | Comparative Politics |
Dewey: 320.3 |
LCCN: 2007020937 |
Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics |
Physical Information: 336 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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:
Comparative Politics - The Principle-Agent Perspective will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, government, political theory and law. |