Screen LibraryDemocracy for realists : why elections do not produce responsive government /
Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton studies in political behavior
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Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government. --Publisher information. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-369) and index. |
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9780691169446 (hardcover : acid-free paper) : 0691169446 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| Index Number: | JK1726 |
| CLC: | D771.224 |
| Call Number: | D771.224/A177 |
| Contents: |
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. |