The new institutional politics : performance and outcomes
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The new institutional politics : performance and outcomes
Routledge, 2000
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 38 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [304]-321
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. It examines the problems of institutional effects in democracies and dictatorships and provides analysis of some of the major models in political science.
This is an exploration of how political institutions matter for political, economic and social outcomes. It estimates their impact in relation to other major factors such as culture and social structure. It is written for political scientists and graduates studying comparative politics.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 Theoretical Section
- Chapter 1 What is an institution?
- Chapter 2 Institutions and interests
- Chapter 3 Outputs, outcomes and institutions
- Part 2 Substantive analyses section
- Basic state institutions
- Chapter 4 Federalism
- Chapter 5 The institutionalization of human rights
- The Montesquieu system
- Chapter 6 Presidential or parliamentary executives
- Chapter 7 Impact of legislative institutions
- Chapter 8 Judicial institutions
- The Lijphart system
- Chapter 9 The Duverger theory
- Chapter 10 Westminster versus Consensus democracy - a tenable distinction?
- Chapter 11 Konkordanzdemokratie and corporatism
- The Friedman system
- Chapter 12 The economic outcomes of market institutions
- Chapter 13 The economic outcomes of market institutions
- Chapter 14 Economic institutions and political freedom
- Chapter 15 Conclusion
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