Title:
Patterns of democracy : government forms and performance in thirty-six countries
Author:
Lijphart, Arend.
ISBN:
9780300078930
9780300078947
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c1999.
Physical Description:
xiv, 351 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. The Westminster Model of Democracy -- 3. The Consensus Model of Democracy -- 4. Thirty-Six Democracies -- 5. Party Systems: Two-Party and Multiparty Patterns -- 6. Cabinets: Concentration Versus Sharing of Executive Power -- 7. Executive-Legislative Relations: Patterns of Dominance and Balance of Power -- 8. Electoral Systems: Majority and Plurality Methods Versus Proportional Representation -- 9. Interest Groups: Pluralism Versus Corporatism -- 10. Division of Power: The Federal-Unitary and Centralized-Decentralized Contrasts -- 11. Parliaments and Congresses: Concentration Versus Division of Legislative Power -- 12. Constitutions: Amendment Procedures and Judicial Review -- 13. Central Banks: Independence Versus Dependence -- 14. The Two-Dimensional Conceptual Map of Democracy -- 15. Macro-Economic Management and the Control of Violence: Does Consensus Democracy Make a Difference?
16. The Quality of Democracy and a "Kinder, Gentler" Democracy: Consensus Democracy Makes a Difference -- 17. Conclusions and Recommendations -- App. A. Two Dimensions and Ten Basic Variables, 1945-96 and 1971-96 -- App. B. Alternative Measure of Multipartism, Cabinet Composition, and Disproportionality, 1945-96 and 1971-96.