Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Models of Governance -- DECENTRALISM -- CENTRIPETALISM -- CONTRASTS -- THE ARGUMENT -- THE CAUSAL MODEL -- PART ONE: CAUSAL MECHANISMS -- 2 Party Government -- UNITARISM -- PARLIAMENTARISM -- CLOSED-LIST PR -- CONCLUSIONS -- 3 Conflict Mediation -- UNITARISM -- PARLIAMENTARISM -- CLOSED-LIST PR -- CONCLUSIONS -- 4 Policy Coordination -- UNITARISM -- CLOSED-LIST PR -- PARLIAMENTARISM -- CONCLUSIONS -- PART TWO: EMPIRICS -- 5 Hypotheses -- UNITARISM -- PARLIAMENTARISM -- CLOSED-LIST PR -- HISTORICAL CODING -- 6 Cross-National Tests -- MEASURING GOOD GOVERNANCE -- Political Development -- Economic Development -- Human Development -- ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES -- Control Variables -- RESULTS -- 7 Assessing the Evidence -- PROBLEMS OF ROBUSTNESS, BRIEFLY CONSIDERED -- WHY NOT A "CASE STUDY" APPROACH? -- ESTIMATING CAUSAL EFFECTS -- PART THREE: CONCLUSIONS -- 8 In Defense of Grand Theory -- APPENDIX A: Defining Good Governance -- NARROW NORMATIVE FRAMEWORKS -- A DELIBERATIVE FRAMEWORK -- IS DELIBERATION PRACTICAL? -- APPENDIX B: Alternative Theories Revisited -- A CENTRAL AMBIGUITY -- THE MARKET MODEL -- VETO-POINTS MODELS -- THE CONSENSUS MODEL -- Sources -- Author Index -- Subject Index.