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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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Comparative politics : the principal-agent perspective by Jan-Erik Lane. ISBN 9780203935545. Published by Routledge in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.