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The new institutional politics : performance and outcomes / Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lane, Jan-Erik.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative government.
- Quality of life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The New Institutional Politics is a comparative study of the impact of political institutions upon outcomes, and covers some of the major themes in the new institutionalism. It looks at how various democratic institutions like Konkordanzdemokratie or corporatism promote better outcomes than Westminster institutions. The evaluation of the performance of political institutions covers the executive, the legislature and the judicial system. The book also looks at economic outcomes such as affluence and GDP growth as well as social ones like income distribution and quality of life. I
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; Introduction: Rousseau's problem; What is an institution?; Institutions and interests; Outputs, outcomes and institutions; Basic state institutions; Federalism: Althusius; The institutionalization of human rights: Locke; The Montesquieu system; Presidential or parliamentary executives: Linz; Impact of legislative institutions; Judicial institutions; The Lijphart system; The Duverger theory: impact of election rules; Westminster versus Consensus democracy a tenable distinction?; Konkordanzdemokratie and corporatism
- The Friedman systemThe economic outcomes of market institutions: theory; The economic outcomes of market institutions: empirical tests; Economic institutions and political freedom: Friedman; Conclusion: constitutionalism matters; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [304]-321) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-67224-1
- 1-280-33682-X
- 0-203-02057-X
- 0-203-26460-6
- 1-134-67225-X
- 9780203020579
- OCLC:
- 71348411
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