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Comparative Politics: The Principal-Agent Perspective (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics)
Comparative Politics The PrincipalAgent Perspective - Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Author:Jan-Erik Lane Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites so that they deliver in accordance with the needs... more » and preferences of their principal: the population. This book explores whether there are any evolutionary mechanisms in politics which guide mankind towards the rule of law regime, domestically and globally. It combines a cross-sectional approach with a longitudinal one. Comparing the extent of the rule of law among states, using a set of data from 150 countries concerning political and social variables, the author seeks to understand why there is such a marked difference among states. Taking a state-centred perspective and looking at countries with a population larger than one million people during the post Second World War period, the book examines:
The stability and performance of states
The conditions for the rule of law regime: economic, social, cultural and institutional ones
The evolution of governments towards rule of law
Comparative Politics - The Principle-Agent Perspective will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, government, political theory and law.« less