Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries by Arend Lijphart

Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries

Arend Lijphart

368 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative slow-paced
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Examining 36 democracies from 1945 to 1996, this text arrives at important - and unexpected - conclusions about what type of democracy works best. It demonstrates that consensual systems stimulate economic growth, control inflation and unemploymen...

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