TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lijphart, Arend
TI  - Patterns of democracy: government forms and performance in thirty-six countries 
SN  - 0300078943 (cloth)
AV  - JC 421 L542.1999
U1  - 320.3 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Democracia
KW  - Comparative government
KW  - Gobierno comparado
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [317]-340) e índice; 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
ER  -