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Media type:
Book
Title:
Comparative politics
:
the principal-agent perspective
Contains:
Introductory chapter: Micro foundations of comparative politics -- The states of the world -- Rule of law -- Environmental factors -- Impact of political institutions -- Changing principal-agent institutions -- Party system instability and volatility from the principal-agent perspective -- Regime fitness on the survival of polities -- The concept of a polity : from the city-state to the empire -- Ancient empires : Oriental despotism or the patrimonial state -- Feudalism : political, economical, and modern -- The nation-state and colonial empires -- The regionalisation of the state -- Concluding chapter: Evolutionary advantage of rule of law regimes