TY - BOOK AU - Przeworski,Adam AU - Maravall,José María TI - Democracy and the rule of law T2 - Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy SN - 0521825598 AV - K3171 .A6 U1 - 340/.11 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York, NY PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Rule of law KW - Congresses KW - Democracy KW - Règle de droit KW - Congrès KW - Démocratie N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam034/2002035189.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2002035189.html UR - http://www.myilibrary.com?id=43108 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam031/2002035189.html ER -