Jan-Erik Lane
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1198560 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan-Erik Lane |
| NOMBRES | Jan-Erik |
| APELLIDO | Lane |
| FIRMA | LANE J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Geneva |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 280 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Rationality and Institutions
It is now commonplace to renounce rational action in the social sciences. It is claimed that rationality as the maximization of self-interest is impossible as well as that it is unethical. Yet rational choice remains a most important paradigm for understanding human behaviour. D. Kahneman has contributed to the analysis of human action criticizing the two endpoints, namely perfect individual rationality on the one hand and group or collective dec…
The Modern State in Comparative Inquiry
Norwegian macro-oriented Social Scientist Stein Rokkan often argued for the relevance of comparative historical inquiry. What can comparative longitudinal analyses of the state teach? The term “state” is core in politics. When do states appear on the real stage? My assessment is that F. Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order (Fukuyama, 2014) attempts to demolish the established perspective. I believe that he is incorrect
Religion and Politics
Religion and Politics
Traditional Domination
Global warming
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change met again in Bonn for the COP23 in the fall with Fiji as host, the focus should have been upon the GOAL II in the COP21 Treaty: decarbonisation with 30-40 per cent of 2005 levels until 2030. Several countries now meet the GOAL I of halting the rise in CO2 emissions. And the rest should be asked and helped to do so. But the GOAL II is a very big challenge. It can only be fulfilled with mass…
Global coordination
In order to halt the depletion of global ecological capital, a number of different kinds of meetings between Governments of countries in the world has been scheduled. The need for global coordination of environmental policies has become ever more obvious, supported by more and more evidence of the running down of ecological capital. But there are no formal or binding arrangements in sight, as global environmental coordination suffers from high tr…
Democracy
What is democracy? Under what conditions does it thrive? What are the consequences of democracy?This book aims to answer these questions and more by exploring different varieties of democracies around the world. It starts with definitions of democracy and then divides the concept into three dimensions, which provide a framework for the study of democracy in all its forms. These dimensions form the three main sections of the book:*constitutional d…
Culture and Politics
Culture and Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics. Combining a substantial theoretical overview with intricate comparative empirical research, it assesses the complex interplay of ethnicity, religion, history and values on macro- and micro-level outcomes. Striking a judicious balance between the use of global data on the topic and their selection of…
Fiji
The Republic of Fiji Islands has been under military rule since December 2006. Yet, the regime of Frank Bainimarama is not really like any other military regime in the world, nor does the 2006 coup resemble the earlier military interventions in the country. It is attempting development without freedom, but can it succeed? It is important to recognize that dictatorships can be of very different kinds. What happens with the Bainimarama regime will …
Rediscovering the unitary model
Religion and politics
Comparative Politics
Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites so that they deliver in accordance with the needs and preferences of their principal: the population. This book explores whether there are any evolution…
South Africa
Democracy scores for South Africa are now quite high. How is this to be explained? Testing social, economic, cultural and institutional models of democracy, we suggest that South Africa's current democratic stability is best explained by a combination of institutional and political culture factors. The ANC in South Africa is found to be an interesting example of a dominant party. In contrast to superficially similar cases in Mexico and Taiwan, th…
Towards an Analysis of Voting Power in Parliament
Party System Instability in Europe
To fully understand the function of volatility in today's European democracies, it is necessary to employ the principal-agent model. Where democracy is exercised in the form of party government, then it is especially essential to enquire into how the electorate can monitor politicians. Electoral volatility may increase the responsiveness of the party system to the electorate and increase the accountability of politicians. Party system instability…
A new cultural cleavage in post-modern society
The attitudes towards gender and homosexuality tend to be linked at the micro level (individuals), which explains the political saliency of this newly emerging cleavage. At the macro level (country), the main finding is that the value orientations towards gender and homosexuality are strongly embedded in the basic cultural or civilisation differences among countries. As developing countries modernise and enter post-modernity, they will also exper…
International Organisation as Coordination in N-Person Games
One major problem in global governance is the specification of decision-making rules for international and regional organisations to coordinate the states of the world. Various organisations use different decision-making rules, and the properties of these rules may be compared systematically in terms of the power index approach. The power index solution concept of N-person games may be employed to display a basic problem in global governance, nam…
Gender and Homosexuality as a Major Cultural Cleavage
In post-modern society cultural cleavages are becoming at least as relevant as socio-economic ones. They can only be properly researched by the survey method, which opens up a whole new area for both micro and macroanalysis. So, first, we pinpoint some of the main problems of research into value orientations. Second, we suggest a new analysis of attitudes towards gender and homosexuality, employing both micro and macro data. One key finding here …
Wirtschaft und Politik in der Schweiz
The riddle of federalism
Does federalism matter for democratic longevity? Most scholars would reply first 'yes', and then most probably add 'very positively'. We show in this article that one should not take for granted that federalism constitutes a positive for democratic stability. This surprising result, derived from a regression approach where the impact of federalism is tapped while controlling for other factors constituting embeddedness, explains why many federal s…
French Politics
Debate
Conceptualising globalisation, cultural identity and democracy
Communitarianism offers a rationale for the growing relevance of communities. Its key question is also the one that globalisation makes highly relevant, namely: Who are we? What way of life do we wish to support? Communitarianism underlines the politics of mutual respect as the democratic state’s proper reaction to multiculturalism. Such a politics of mutual respect would be truly global. The paradox of globalisation is that it both makes communa…
A Note on Nice
Why Unanimity in the Council
This article examines whether data on the voting patterns in the Council of Ministers lend support to the hypotheses that can be derived from some recent rational choice models of decision-making in the European Union. The findings show major discrepancies between the predictions of these spatial models and the empirical observations. Unanimous decision-making is much more frequent than one would expect from these influential contributions. Our e…
Party System Instability in Europe
To fully understand the function of volatility in today's European democracies, it is necessary to employ the principal-agent model. Where democracy is exercised in the form of party government, then it is especially essential to enquire into how the electorate can monitor politicians. Electoral volatility may increase the responsiveness of the party system to the electorate and increase the accountability of politicians. Party system instability…
Voting Power under the EU Constitution
Decision making rules in the EU Council of Ministers need to be revised in light of enlargements since 1958. Under the qualified majority rules, the more countries join, the less the voting power of the large states, leading necessarily to coalition-building process, two possible examples of which are described. The situation would be less paradoxical if the EU were to adopt a single rule, the simple majority vote
Relevance of Voting Power
Democratic decision-making in groups requires institutions that aggregate the preference of the choice participants into a collective choice under the restriction that no player is a dictator. Constitutions deliver alternative rules for democratic decision-making, the consequences of which are best analysed using cooperative game theory. The emergence of a power index literature in the 1980s reflects the relevance of this type of modelling of ins…
Scandinavian Exceptionalism Reconsidered
Examination of data on the four Nordic countries leads to a critique of two theories in the international literature about Scandinavian exceptionalism: (i) the Lipset and Rokkan stability hypothesis as reiterated by S. Bartolini and P. Mair and (ii) the idea of the Scandinavian model stability as stated by T. Tilton, H. Milner, M. Olson and G. Esping-Andersen. Increased volatility, the decline in partisan vote, mounting ungovernability at the nat…
The Eu Parliament
Voting power in the EU Parliament may be analysed from two perspectives: that of the states, and that of the political parties. The differences in state power reflect the population differences better than in the EU Council. The strength of the left is apparent in the voting power scores for the Parliament
Ecology of Party Strength in Western Europe
Following the Lipset-Rokkan cleavage approach, we present an ecological analysis of the electoral outcomes at the regional level of the political parties in 16 European democracies. The search for relationships between voter alignments and the social structure is conducted in terms of a comparative ecology model. Ecological factors at the regional level within each country account for 75% of the variance in support for 93 parties over three elect…
The riddle of federalism
Does federalism matter for democratic longevity? Most scholars would reply first 'yes', and then most probably add 'very positively'. We show in this article that one should not take for granted that federalism constitutes a positive for democratic stability. This surprising result, derived from a regression approach where the impact of federalism is tapped while controlling for other factors constituting embeddedness, explains why many federal s…
The Twilight of the Scandinavian Model
Party politics in a fortress colony
Statism, Rationality, and State Centrism
Public Policy in a Principal-Agent Framework
The principal-agent framework is a rapidly developing approach to the analysis of contractual relationships within the private sector. We argue that it should be a promising approach to the analysis of public policy commitments as well. As a matter of fact, it allows the statement of a number of basic public policy problems in terms of an integrated framework. The making and implementation of public policy involve fundamental contractual problems…
A new cultural cleavage in post-modern society
The attitudes towards gender and homosexuality tend to be linked at the micro level (individuals), which explains the political saliency of this newly emerging cleavage. At the macro level (country), the main finding is that the value orientations towards gender and homosexuality are strongly embedded in the basic cultural or civilisation differences among countries. As developing countries modernise and enter post-modernity, they will also exper…
French Politics
Rediscovering the unitary model
South Africa
Democracy scores for South Africa are now quite high. How is this to be explained? Testing social, economic, cultural and institutional models of democracy, we suggest that South Africa's current democratic stability is best explained by a combination of institutional and political culture factors. The ANC in South Africa is found to be an interesting example of a dominant party. In contrast to superficially similar cases in Mexico and Taiwan, th…
Towards an Analysis of Voting Power in Parliament
Gender and Homosexuality as a Major Cultural Cleavage
In post-modern society cultural cleavages are becoming at least as relevant as socio-economic ones. They can only be properly researched by the survey method, which opens up a whole new area for both micro and macroanalysis. So, first, we pinpoint some of the main problems of research into value orientations. Second, we suggest a new analysis of attitudes towards gender and homosexuality, employing both micro and macro data. One key finding here …
Wirtschaft und Politik in der Schweiz
A Note on Nice
Le Parti radical démocratique suisse
Lorsque Laurent Labrot a soumis le bref article qui suit la Revue suisse de science politique, les opinions ont rapidement diverg sur l'intrt de sa thse provocante rsume dans son titre "Le Parti radical dmocratique suisse: du parti dominant au parti prdominant?". Conformment nos rgles d'valuation anonyme, le manuscrit a t envoy trois valuateurs dont les opinions taient elles aussi divergentes, mme si tous ont considr qu'il mritait d'tre publi dan…
Constitutional Power in the EU
Institutional Amalgamations in Higher Education Process and Outcome in Five Countries
State or Market
We argue that politics matters in relation to the fundamental choice of allocation between public resource allocation and the market. These two forms of collective choices can be substituted only to a certain extent. It is difficult to pin down that politics matters for de tailed variation on kinds of public expenditures, particularly in rich countries, but we pre dict that politics is crucial to the basic choice between state and market when dif…
Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations, New Haven
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Ecology of Party Strength in Western Europe
Following the Lipset-Rokkan cleavage approach, we present an ecological analysis of the electoral outcomes at the regional level of the political parties in 16 European democracies. The search for relationships between voter alignments and the social structure is conducted in terms of a comparative ecology model. Ecological factors at the regional level within each country account for 75% of the variance in support for 93 parties over three elect…
State or Market
We argue that politics matters in relation to the fundamental choice of allocation between public resource allocation and the market. These two forms of collective choices can be substituted only to a certain extent. It is difficult to pin down that politics matters for de tailed variation on kinds of public expenditures, particularly in rich countries, but we pre dict that politics is crucial to the basic choice between state and market when dif…
Against administration
Higher education reforms are typically justified in terms of the ambition to improve on the basic functions of academia, teaching and research. This was the case in the extensive organisational transformation of the Swedish system of universities and colleges during the seventies. However, it is an open question whether organisational changes really accomplish improvements in research and teaching. The analysis of outcome data about the socalled …
Administrative Growth in the Public Sector
XIVth Ipsa World Congress
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Statism, Rationality, and State Centrism
Institutional Amalgamations in Higher Education Process and Outcome in Five Countries
Public Policy in a Principal-Agent Framework
The principal-agent framework is a rapidly developing approach to the analysis of contractual relationships within the private sector. We argue that it should be a promising approach to the analysis of public policy commitments as well. As a matter of fact, it allows the statement of a number of basic public policy problems in terms of an integrated framework. The making and implementation of public policy involve fundamental contractual problems…
Campus Life
Party politics in a fortress colony
The Twilight of the Scandinavian Model
Scandinavian Exceptionalism Reconsidered
Examination of data on the four Nordic countries leads to a critique of two theories in the international literature about Scandinavian exceptionalism: (i) the Lipset and Rokkan stability hypothesis as reiterated by S. Bartolini and P. Mair and (ii) the idea of the Scandinavian model stability as stated by T. Tilton, H. Milner, M. Olson and G. Esping-Andersen. Increased volatility, the decline in partisan vote, mounting ungovernability at the nat…
Comparative Politics
Forword. Introduction: Art and Craft of Comparative Politics. 1. Comparative Approaches. 2. States in the World. 3. State Longevity. 4. Regimes, Constitutions and Stability. 5. State Performance. 6. Explanatory Models of State Properties. 7. Structural Models. 8. Institutional Models. 9. Actor Models. 10. Efficiency and Legitimacy. 11. Transition Models. Concluding Chapter. Appendices. References. Index
Voting Power under the EU Constitution
Decision making rules in the EU Council of Ministers need to be revised in light of enlargements since 1958. Under the qualified majority rules, the more countries join, the less the voting power of the large states, leading necessarily to coalition-building process, two possible examples of which are described. The situation would be less paradoxical if the EU were to adopt a single rule, the simple majority vote
The Eu Parliament
Voting power in the EU Parliament may be analysed from two perspectives: that of the states, and that of the political parties. The differences in state power reflect the population differences better than in the EU Council. The strength of the left is apparent in the voting power scores for the Parliament
European Politics
Jan-Erik Lane and Svante O. Ersson provide here a clear overview of European politics, emphasising convergence rather than divergence
Constitutions and political theory
Since constitutional arrangements are what make polities work, they are a central concern of political theory. This book is the first comprehensive exploration of the political theory of constitutions. Jan-Erik Lane begins by examining the origins and history of constitutionalism, the doctrine that the state must be regulated by means of a set of institutions that guarantee citizen rights and procedural accountability. He then examines the struct…
Constitutional Power in the EU
European politics
Constitutions and Political Theory
Introduction
Public Sector Reform
Leading experts from a number of countries examine the similarities and differences, common problems and the future form of the public sector. They argue that public sector reform deals with matters of justice and not just efficiency
Politics and Society in Western Europe
Providing a full analysis of the political systems of 18 countries, this book covers the political parties, elections and party systems, as well as the structures of government at local, regional, national and European Union levels
Le Parti radical démocratique suisse
Lorsque Laurent Labrot a soumis le bref article qui suit la Revue suisse de science politique, les opinions ont rapidement diverg sur l'intrt de sa thse provocante rsume dans son titre "Le Parti radical dmocratique suisse: du parti dominant au parti prdominant?". Conformment nos rgles d'valuation anonyme, le manuscrit a t envoy trois valuateurs dont les opinions taient elles aussi divergentes, mme si tous ont considr qu'il mritait d'tre publi dan…
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