Comparative Politics: The Principal-Agent Perspective

by Jan-Erik Lane

Book Overview

Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites so that they deliver in accordance with the needs and preferences of their principal: the population.

This book explores whether there are any...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041558678X
• ISBN13: 9780415586788
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"