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Democracy and the rule of law / edited by Jose Mariá Maravall, Adam Przeworski.

Title
Democracy and the rule of law / edited by Jose Mariá Maravall, Adam Przeworski.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Maravall, José María
  • Przeworski, Adam
Description
xi, 321 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Addressing why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law, this work defends a positive interpretation where the rule of law results from the strategic choices of relevant actors.
Series Statement
Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy
Uniform Title
Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Congress
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Actes de congrès.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Lineages of the rule of law / Stephen Holmes -- Power, rules, and compliance / Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca -- Obedience and obligation in the Rechtsstaat / Michel Troper -- A postscript to "Political foundations of democracy and the rule of law" / Barry R. Weingast -- Why do political parties obey results of elections / Adam Przeworski -- The majoritarian reading of the rule of law / Roberto Gargarella / How can the rule of law rule : cost imposition through decentralized mechanisms / Catalina Smulovitz -- Dictatorship and the rule of law : rules and military power in Pinochet's Chile / Robert Barros -- Courts as an instrument of horizontal accountability : the case of latin Europe / Carlo Guarnieri -- Rule of democracy and rule of law / John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino -- The rule of law as a political weapon / José María Maravall -- The rule of law and the problem of legal reform in Michel de Montaigne's Essais / Biancamaria Fontana.
ISBN
  • 0521825598 (hardback)
  • 0521532663 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2002035189
OCLC
  • 50803319
  • SCSB-10318802
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library