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  title info:
    title: Patterns of democracy
    sub title: government forms and performance in thirty-six countries
  name:
    name part: Lijphart, Arend.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2012
    edition: 2nd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The Westminster model of democracy -- The consensus model of democracy -- Thirty-six democracies -- Party systems : two-party and multiparty patterns -- Cabinets : concentration versus sharing of executive power -- Executive-legislative relations : patterns of dominance and balance of power -- Electoral systems : majority and plurality methods versus proportional representation -- Interest groups : pluralism versus corporatism -- Division of power : the federal-unitary and centralized-decentralized contrasts -- Parliaments and congresses : concentration versus division of legislative power -- Constitutions : amendment procedures and judicial review -- Central banks : independence versus dependence -- The two-dimensional conceptual map of democracy -- Effective government and policy-making : does concensus democracy make a difference? -- The quality of democracy and a "kinder, gentler" democracy : consensus democracy makes a difference -- Conclusions and recommendations.
  note: Arend Lijphart.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Comparative government
  classification: JC421 .L542 2012
  classification: 320.3
  classification: 89.35
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Patterns of democracy
    identifier: (NL-LeOCL)351927581
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2012000704
  identifier: 0300189125 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780300189124 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780300172027 (paperbound : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0300172028 (paperbound : alk. paper)
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
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    record change date: 20250816210453.6
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