Democracy and Institutions : The Life Work of Arend Lijphart.
Title:
Democracy and Institutions : The Life Work of Arend Lijphart.
Author:
Crepaz, Markus M. L.
ISBN:
9780472026845
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- 1. Studying Democracy and Putting It into Practice: The Contributions of Arend Lijphart to Democratic Theory and to Actual Democracy / David Wilsford -- 2. Political Responsiveness and Constitutional Design / G. Bingham Powell Jr. -- 3. Arend Lijphart and the New Institutionalism / Bernard Grofman -- 4. Arend Lijphart and Dimensions of Demoracy / Rein Taagepera -- 5. Power Sharing and the Constructionist Fallacy / Milton J. Esman -- 6. Expanding the Spectrum of Democracies: Reflections on Proportional Representation in New Zealand / Jack H. Nagel -- 7. The New South African Constitution: A Case of Consensus Democracy? / Thomas A. Koelble -- 8. Majoritarian or Power-Sharing Government / Andrew Reynolds -- 9. Global Economics, Local Politics: Lijphart's Theory of Consensus Democracy and the Politics of Inclusion / Markus M. L. Crepaz and Vicki Birchfield -- 10. Varieties of Nonmajoritarian Democracy / Arend Lijphart -- Index.
Abstract:
How institutional engineering affects the life of democracies.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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