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Democracy for realists : why elections do not produce responsive government /

Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Achen, Christopher H. (Autor), Bartels, Larry M., 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Colección:Princeton studies in political behavior.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface -- Democratic ideals and realities -- The elusive mandate : elections and the mirage of popular control -- Tumbling down into a democratical republick : "pure democracy" and the pitfalls of popular control -- A rational God of vengeance and of reward? : the logic of retrospective accountability -- Blind retrospection : electoral responses to droughts, floods, and shark attacks -- Musical chairs : economic voting and the specious present -- A chicken in every pot : ideology and retrospection in the great depression -- The very basis of reasons : groups, social identities, and political psychology -- Partisan hearts and spleens : social identities and political change -- It feels like we're thinking : the rationalizing voter -- Groups and power : toward a realist theory of democracy -- Retrospective voting as selection and sanctioning -- Afterword. 
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