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

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 321 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy
Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Summary Addresses why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Rule of law -- Congresses.
Rule of law.
Democracy -- Congresses.
Democracy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Przeworski, Adam.
Maravall, José María.
Other Form: Print version: Democracy and the rule of law. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521825598 0521532663 (DLC) 2002035189 (OCoLC)50803319
ISBN 051106246X (electronic book)
9780511062469 (electronic book)
9780511610066 (electronic book)
0511610068 (electronic book)
0521825598 (Cloth)
0521532663 (paperback)
9780521825597