Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes

Giovanni Sartori

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

A path-breaking, highly innovative comparative study in state building by a major political scientist, Comparative Constitutional Engineering examines in detail the various forms of democratic government in their merits, failures and attendant problems. This work is highly innovative on three counts: first, it takes structures seriously; second, it perceives structures as systems of rewards and deprivations, arguing that their working is a function of incentives; third, it relies heavily on condition analysis, i.e. on the specification of the conditions under which a structural arrangement performs, or vice-versa cannot perform, as intended.

The Theory of Democracy Revisited (Two Part Set)

Politics & Government

Chatham House

<p>In this rich and broad-ranging volume, Giovanni Sartori outlines what is now recognised to be the most comprehensive and authoritative approach to the classification of party systems. He also offers an extensive review of the concept and rationale of the political party, and develops a sharp critique of various spatial models of party competition. This is political science at its best – combining the intelligent use of theory with sophisticated analytic arguments, and grounding all of this on a substantial cross-national empirical base. Parties and Party Systems is one of the classics of postwar political science, and is now established as the foremost work in its field.</p>

Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis (ECPR Press Classics)

Legal Theory & Systems

ECPR Press

Que Es la Democracia? (Spanish Edition)

Taurus

Homo Videns: La Sociedad Teledirigida

Humor & Entertainment

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