Democracies : patterns of majoritarian and consensus government in twenty-one countries /
"There is more than one way to run a successful democracy. Lijphart divides these democracies into two basic models: majoritarian democracies, in which the majority rules, and consensus democracies, in which deep divisions in the society have prompted restraints on majority rule. This book is t...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c1984.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Lijphart, Arend. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Democracies : |b patterns of majoritarian and consensus government in twenty-one countries / |c Arend Lijphart. |
| 260 | |a New Haven : |b Yale University Press, |c c1984. | ||
| 300 | |a xv, 229 p. : |b il. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- 1. The Westminster model of democracy -- 2. The consensus model of democracy -- 3. Twenty-two democratic regimes -- 4. Executive power : majority rule vs. power-sharing -- 5. Executive-legislative relations : patterns of dominance and balance of power -- 6. Parliaments : concentration vs. sharing of legislative power -- 7. Party systems : two-party and multiparty patterns -- 8. Party systems : the issue dimensions of partisan conflict -- 9. Electoral systems : majority and plurality methods vs. proportional representation -- 10. Division of power : the federal-unitary and centralized-decentralized contrasts -- 11. Constitutions : the sovereignty of the majority vs. minority rights -- 12. Referendums in representative democracies -- 13. Rational, prescriptive, and empirical models of democracy. | |
| 520 | |a "There is more than one way to run a successful democracy. Lijphart divides these democracies into two basic models: majoritarian democracies, in which the majority rules, and consensus democracies, in which deep divisions in the society have prompted restraints on majority rule. This book is the broadest and most thorough comparative study of democratic regimes available and will be especially suitable for course use." --Descripción del editor. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Democracy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Comparative government. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Democracia. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Gobierno comparado. |2 UDESA | |