Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index.
Introduction : micro foundations of comparative politics -- The states of the world -- Rule of law -- Environmental factors -- Impact of political institutions -- Changing principal-agent institutions -- Party system instability and volatility from the principal-agent perspective -- Regime fitness : on the survival of polities -- The concept of a polity : from the city-state to the empire -- The ancient empires : Oriental despotism or the patrimonial state -- Feudalism : political, economical and modern -- The nation-state and colonial empires -- The regionalisation of the state -- Conclusion : evolutionary advantage of rule of law regimes.
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89.03 methods and techniques of political science.