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Patterns of democracy : government forms and performance in thirty-six countries / Arend Lijphart.

Por: Tipo de material: TextoTextoDetalles de publicación: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999.Descripción: xiv, 351 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0300078943 (cloth)
  • 0300078935 (pbk.)
Tema(s): Clasificación CDD:
  • 320.3 21
Clasificación LoC:
  • JC 421 L542.1999
Contenidos:
Introduction -- The Westminster model of democracy -- The consensus model of democracy -- Thirty-six democracies -- Party systems: two-party and multiparty patterns -- Cabinets: concentration versus sharing of executive power -- Executive-legislative relations: patterns of dominance and balance of power -- Electoral systems: majority and plurality methods versus proportional representation -- Interest groups: pluralism versus corporatism -- Division of power: the federal-unitary and centralized-decentralized contrasts -- Parliaments and congresses: concentration versus division of legislative power -- Constitutions: amendment procedures and judicial review -- Central banks: independence versus dependence -- The two-dimensional conceptual map of democracy -- Macro-economic management and the control of violence: does consensus democracy make a difference? -- The quality of democracy and a "kinder, gentler" democracy: consensus democracy makes a difference -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendix A. Two dimensions and ten basic variables, 1945-96 and 1971-96 -- Appendix B. Alternative measure of multipartism, cabinet composition, and disproportionality, 1945-96 and 1971-96.
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Introduction -- The Westminster model of democracy -- The consensus model of democracy -- Thirty-six democracies -- Party systems: two-party and multiparty patterns -- Cabinets: concentration versus sharing of executive power -- Executive-legislative relations: patterns of dominance and balance of power -- Electoral systems: majority and plurality methods versus proportional representation -- Interest groups: pluralism versus corporatism -- Division of power: the federal-unitary and centralized-decentralized contrasts -- Parliaments and congresses: concentration versus division of legislative power -- Constitutions: amendment procedures and judicial review -- Central banks: independence versus dependence -- The two-dimensional conceptual map of democracy -- Macro-economic management and the control of violence: does consensus democracy make a difference? -- The quality of democracy and a "kinder, gentler" democracy: consensus democracy makes a difference -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendix A. Two dimensions and ten basic variables, 1945-96 and 1971-96 -- Appendix B. Alternative measure of multipartism, cabinet composition, and disproportionality, 1945-96 and 1971-96.