An Economic THeory of Democracy
Author | : Anthony Downs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Anthony Downs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Anthony Downs |
Publisher | : New York : Harper |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This book seeks to elucidate its subject-the governing of democratic state-by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deducible from, precisely stated assumptions about the motivations that attend the decisions of voters and parties and the environment in which they act. He is consciously concerned with the economy in explanation, that is, with attempting to account for phenomena in terms of a very limited number of facts and postulates. He is concerned also with the central features of party politics in any democratic state, not with that in the United States or any other single country.
Author | : Anthony Downs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Political parties |
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Author | : Anthony Downs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Political parties |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bernard Grofman |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780472083435 |
A review of the consequences for political science of Anthony Downs's seminal work.
Author | : Yi Feng |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262562119 |
A theoretical and empirical examination of why political institutions and organizations matter in economic growth.
Author | : Robert A. Dahl |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780226134260 |
Robert Dahl's Preface helped launch democratic theory fifty years ago as a new area of study in political science, and it remains the standard introduction to the field. Exploring problems that had been left unsolved by traditional thought on democracy, Dahl here examines two influential models--the Madisonian, which represents prevailing American doctrine, and its recurring challenger, populist theory--arguing that they do not accurately portray how modern democracies operate. He then constructs a model more consistent with how contemporary democracies actually function, and, in doing so, develops some original views of popular sovereignty and the American constitutional system.
Author | : Daron Acemoglu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521855266 |
This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless is not stable when citizens can threaten social disorder and revolution. In response, when the costs of repression are sufficiently high and promises of concessions are not credible, elites may be forced to create democracy. By democratizing, elites credibly transfer political power to the citizens, ensuring social stability. Democracy consolidates when elites do not have strong incentive to overthrow it. These processes depend on (1) the strength of civil society, (2) the structure of political institutions, (3) the nature of political and economic crises, (4) the level of economic inequality, (5) the structure of the economy, and (6) the form and extent of globalization.
Author | : Petr Špecián |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2022-06-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000598543 |
Drawing on current debates at the frontiers of economics, psychology, and political philosophy, this book explores the challenges that arise for liberal democracies from a confrontation between modern technologies and the bounds of human rationality. With the ongoing transition of democracy’s underlying information economy into the digital space, threats of disinformation and runaway political polarization have been gaining prominence. Employing the economic approach informed by behavioral sciences’ findings, the book’s chief concern is how these challenges can be addressed while preserving a commitment to democratic values and maximizing the epistemic benefits of democratic decision-making. The book has two key strands: it provides a systematic argument for building a behaviorally informed theory of democracy; and it examines how scientific knowledge on quirks and bounds of human rationality can inform the design of resilient democratic institutions. Drawing these together, the book explores the centrality of the rationality assumption in the methodological debates surrounding behavioral sciences as exemplified by the dispute between neoclassical and behavioral economics; the role of (ir)rationality in democratic social choice; behaviorally informed paternalism as a response to the challenge of irrationality; and non-paternalistic avenues to increase the resilience of the democratic institutions toward political irrationality. This book is invaluable reading for anyone interested in behavioral economics and sciences, political philosophy, and the future of democracy.
Author | : Robert A. Dahl |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0520341163 |
Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory, explores this alleged conflict, particularly in modern American society where differences in ownership and control of corporate enterprises create inequalities in resources among Americans that in turn generate inequality among them as citizens. Arguing that Americans have misconceived the relation between democracy, private property, and the economic order, the author contends that we can achieve a society of real democracy and political equality without sacrificing liberty by extending democratic principles into the economic order. Although enterprise control by workers violates many conventional political and ideological assumptions of corporate capitalism as well as of state socialism. Dahl presents an empirically informed and philosophically acute defense of "workplace democracy." He argues, in the light of experiences here and abroad, that an economic system of worker-owned and worker-controlled enterprises could provide a much better foundation for democracy, political equality, and liberty than does our present system of corporate capitalism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986. Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory, explores this alleged conflict, particularly in modern American society where difference