Beyond Post-communist Studies : Political Science and the New Democracies of Europe.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Taylor and Francis,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One: Going Beyond Post-Communist Studies
- Post-Communist Studies and Democratic Consolidation
- Paradigms in Communist Studies
- Democratic Consolidation
- Democratic Consolidation's Research Agenda
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter Two: The Study of Post-Communist Politics
- Stateness
- Democracy and the Market
- Bringing the State In
- Strategic Choice and Post-Communist Studies
- Path Dependency and Post-Communist Studies
- Institutionalism and Post-Communist Studies
- Contributions to the Agenda
- What We Are Not Asking
- Chapter Three: The Missing Agenda
- Bringing Society Back In
- The Distribution of "Democratic" Values
- Civil Society
- Social Movements
- The Rule of Law
- A Usable State Bureaucracy
- Issue Areas Outside the Agenda of Democratic Consolidation
- Principal-Agent Problems
- Local Government
- Institutional Development
- What Is To Be Done?
- Chapter Four: Reformulating Democratic Consolidation
- Transition Theory
- Toward a Theory of Consolidation
- A Theory of Democratic Consolidation
- Weakening and Increasing Competing Forces
- Increasing Institutional Involvement
- Further Explicating the Theory
- Implications
- Applying the Theory
- Russia
- Lithuania
- Chapter Five: Imagining Post-Consolidation Studies
- Fundamentals of Rational Choice
- Spatial Analysis
- The Median Voter Theorem
- Legislative Roll-Call Vote Analysis
- Legislative Committee Systems
- Relations with a President
- Presidential Vetoes
- Presidential Appointments
- The Courts as Political Players
- Analysis of the Party System
- Rules Matter
- Principal-Agent Problems
- Committee Systems
- Legislative Oversight
- Implications
- Chapter Six: Further Extending the Post-Consolidation Agenda.
- The Majority Cycling Problem
- Legislative Agenda
- Cabinet Formation
- The Portfolio Allocation Model
- Explaining Lithuanian Cabinet Formation, 2000-2001
- Chapter Seven: Some Further Theoretical Considerations (with Jan Weiss)
- Toward a Formal Model of an Unconsolidated Democracy
- A Formal Model of Democratic Consolidation
- A Concluding Word
- Notes
- A Short Bibliography of Rational-Choice Literature Arranged by Subject
- Index.