Democracy and Institutions : the Life Work of Arend Lijphart.
Institutions are the channels of political power. This volume explores Arend Lijphart's life work--the design of political institutions. All the contributors to this volume share the fundamental insight that the design of political institutions matters in how democracies work. The essays in thi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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University of Michigan Press
2010.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Studying Democracy and Putting It into Practice: The Contributions of Arend Lijphart to Democratic Theory and to Actual Democracy / David Wilsford; 2. Political Responsiveness and Constitutional Design / G. Bingham Powell Jr.; 3. Arend Lijphart and the New Institutionalism / Bernard Grofman; 4. Arend Lijphart and Dimensions of Demoracy / Rein Taagepera; 5. Power Sharing and the Constructionist Fallacy / Milton J. Esman; 6. Expanding the Spectrum of Democracies: Reflections on Proportional Representation in New Zealand / Jack H. Nagel.
- 7. The New South African Constitution: A Case of Consensus Democracy? / Thomas A. Koelble8. Majoritarian or Power-Sharing Government / Andrew Reynolds; 9. Global Economics, Local Politics: Lijphart's Theory of Consensus Democracy and the Politics of Inclusion / Markus M.L. Crepaz and Vicki Birchfield; 10. Varieties of Nonmajoritarian Democracy / Arend Lijphart; Index.