An Economic Theory of DemocracyThis 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. |
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... effect , since their votes cancel in so far as the immediate outcome is concerned . Citi- zens who abstain also have ... EFFECTS OF RATIONAL ABSTENTION 273.
... effect of income upon , 265-266 , 272-273 , 299 influence upon ideologies , 120 when rational , 39 , 119-120 , 260 ff . , 299 Arrow - problem definition , 60-61 evasion of , 18 , 68 impact on model , 62 relation to attainment of ...
... effect on information costs , 236 impact on logic of government de- cision - making , 62 ff . impact on logic of voting , 45 ff . GENERAL BOOKBINDING CO . 79 2 276AA 013 QUALITY CONTROL MARK and level of confidence , 77-78 , 82 prevents ...