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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Crepaz, Markus M. L., 1959- (Editor ), Koelble, Thomas A., 1957- (Editor ), Wilsford, David (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.