Democracies : patterns of majoritarian & consensus government in twenty-one countries /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lijphart, Arend (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1984.
Temas:
Democracy.
Comparative government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Comparative government
Democracy
Democracies > Politics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Westminster model of democracy
  • The consensus model of democracy
  • Twenty-two democratic regimes
  • Executive power : majority rule vs. power-sharing
  • Executive-legislative relations : patterns of dominance and balance of power
  • Parliaments : concentration vs. sharing of legislative power
  • Party systems : two-party and multiparty patterns
  • Party systems : the issue dimensions of partisan conflict
  • Electoral systems : majority and plurality methods vs. proportional representation
  • Division of power : the federal-unitary and centralized-decentralized contrasts
  • Constitutions : the sovereignty of the majority vs. minority rights
  • Referendums in representative democracies
  • Rational, prescriptive, and empirical models of democracy.

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