List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Jose Maria Maravall and Adam Przeworski Part I: 1. Lineages of the rule of law Stephen Holmes 2. Power, rules, and compliance Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca 3. Obedience and obligation in the Rechtsstaat Michel Troper 4. A postscript to 'Political foundations of democracy and the rule of law' Barry R. Weingast 5. Why do political parties obey results of elections? Adam Przeworski Part II: 6. The majoritarian reading of the 'rule of law' Roberto Gargarella 7. How can the rule of law rule? Cost imposition through decentralized mechanisms Catalina Smulovitz 8. Dictatorship and the rule of law: rules and military power in Pinochet's Chile Robert Barros Part III: 9. Courts as instruments of horizontal accountability: the case of Latin Europe Carlo Guarnieri 10. Rule of democracy and rule of law John Ferejohn and Pasquale Pasquino 11. The rule of law as a political weapon Jose Maria Maravall 12. The question of the rule of law in Michel de Montaigne's Essais Biancamaria Fontana Author index Subject index.
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