TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,Jan-Erik
TI  - Comparative politics: the principal-agent perspective 
SN  - 9780415432061 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - JF 51 L35.2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Comparative government
KW  - Gobierno comparado
KW  - State, The
KW  - Estado, El
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; Introductory chapter: Micro foundations of comparative politics -- The states of the world -- Rule of law -- Environmental factors -- Impact of political institutions -- Changing principal-agent institutions -- Party system instability and volatility from the principal-agent perspective -- Regime fitness on the survival of polities -- The concept of a polity : from the city-state to the empire -- Ancient empires : Oriental despotism or the patrimonial state -- Feudalism : political, economical, and modern -- The nation-state and colonial empires -- The regionalisation of the state -- Concluding chapter: Evolutionary advantage of rule of law regimes
ER  -