Where Jeremy Richardson Albert Weale and Hugh Ward were excellent hosts at the Department of Government and Thomas Christiansen a very good roommate. Having included the UK as a country where decision processes were far less participatory and thus worse in my own vi... Lees meer.

This book examines the division of power in the Ancient Greek city-states of the Classical and Hellenistic periods revealing Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layered system of delegation and legal control. How did the division of power work in A... Lees meer.

A dictator s power is secure the authors begin in this muscular impressive study only as long as citizens believe in it. When citizens suddenly believe otherwise a dictator s power is anything but as the Soviet Union s collapse revealed. This conviction that powe... Lees meer.

Transitional justice the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist has direct implications for democratic processes. Mechanisms of transitional justice have the power to influence who decides to go into politics can shape poli... Lees meer.

Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytical approach combining complexity... Lees meer.

This book models the emergence of the state and the forces that shape it. State creation is bound to protection needs. A specialized protector-ruler is efficient but is also self-seeking. Individuals will install a ruler only after they create a mechanism to control h... Lees meer.

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An important question for the health and longevity of democratic governance is how institutions may be fashioned to prevent electoral victors from drawing on the resources of the state to perpetuate themselves in power. This book addresses the issue by examining how th... Lees meer.

The democracy debate in the U concentrates on two parameters. the political community-the demos- and the institutional setting that better accommodates it. A common political culture can be crafted on principles of justice and good governance. It need not and cannot... Lees meer.

This book offers an analytical explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions on the American frontier during the nineteenth century. Its scope is interdisciplinary integrating insights from political science economics law and history. This book s... Lees meer.

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How did democratic developing countries open their economies during the late-twentieth century. Since labor unions opposed free trade democratic governments often used labor repression to ease the process of trade liberalization. Some democracies brazenly jailed union... Lees meer.

In this study investor decision theory was used as the basis for a survey that demonstrates the barriers faced by those promoting microfinance institutions and public capital markets as the mechanism for implementing grassroots development theory. Grassroots developmen... Lees meer.

Transitional justice the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist has direct implications for democratic processes. Mechanisms of transitional justice have the power to influence who decides to go into politics can shape pol... Lees meer.

This book develops new theory about the link between debt and democracy and applies it to a classic historical comparison. Great Britain in the eighteenth century which had strong representative institutions and sound public finance vs. ancient regime France which had... Lees meer.