TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,Jan-Erik
TI  - Comparative politics: the principal-agent perspective 
T2  - Routledge research in comparative politics
SN  - 9780203935545 (electronic bk.)
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Comparative government
KW  - State, The
KW  - Rule of law
N1  - Description based on print version record; Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-306) and index; Introduction : 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 -- The ancient empires : Oriental despotism or the patrimonial state -- Feudalism : political, economical and modern -- The nation-state and colonial empires -- The regionalisation of the state -- Conclusion : evolutionary advantage of rule of law regimes
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ER  -