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Hiring and firing public officials : rethinking the purpose of elections /
Conventional theories of elections hold that an election is analogous to a consumer product market. The market analogy underlies decades of electoral theory, but this book contends that it does not capture the real nature of elections. In fact, our widespread dissatisfaction with the current state o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Conventional theories of elections hold that an election is analogous to a consumer product market. The market analogy underlies decades of electoral theory, but this book contends that it does not capture the real nature of elections. In fact, our widespread dissatisfaction with the current state of electoral politics derives from a fundamental misunderstanding of what elections are and what purpose they serve. As the text shows, an election is a mechanism by which voters hire and fire public officials. It is not a consumer product market - it is a single employment decision. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190252496 0190252499 |