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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; CHAPTER ONE Democratic Ideals and Realities; CHAPTER TWO The Elusive Mandate: Elections and the Mirage of Popular Control; CHAPTER THREE Tumbling Down into a Democratical Republick: "Pure Democracy" and the Pitfalls of Popular Control; CHAPTER FOUR A Rational God of Vengeance and of Reward? The Logic of Retrospective Accountability; CHAPTER FIVE Blind Retrospection: Electoral Responses to Droughts, Floods, and Shark Attacks; CHAPTER SIX Musical Chairs: Economic Voting and the Specious Present.
- CHAPTER SEVEN A Chicken in Every Pot: Ideology and Retrospection in the Great DepressionCHAPTER EIGHT The Very Basis of Reasons: Groups, Social Identities, and Political Psychology; CHAPTER NINE Partisan Hearts and Spleens: Social Identities and Political Change; CHAPTER TEN It Feels Like We're Thinking: The Rationalizing Voter; CHAPTER ELEVEN Groups and Power: Toward a Realist Theory of Democracy; APPENDIX Retrospective Voting as Selection and Sanctioning; Afterword to the Paperback Edition; References; Index.