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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.
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Politics and government, Representative government and representation, Democracy, Voting, Elections, Political participation, Vote, Participation politique, Gouvernement représentatif, Politique et gouvernement, POLITICAL SCIENCE, General, PHILOSOPHY, Political, Democracy--united states, Elections--united states, Voting--united states, Political participation--united states, Representative government and representation--united states, Jc421 .a34 2016, 321.8Places
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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
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Table of Contents
1. Democratic Ideals and Realities
2. The Elusive Mandate: Elections and the Mirage of Popular Control
3. Tumbling Down into a Democratical Republick: "Pure Democracy" and the Pitfalls of Popular Control
4. A Rational God of Vengeance and of Reward? The Logic of Retrospective Accountability
5. Blind Retrospection: Electoral Responses to Droughts, Floods, and Shark Attacks
6. Musical Chairs: Economic Voting and the Specious Present
7. A Chicken in Every Pot: Ideology and Retrospection in the Great Depression
8. The Very Basis of Reasons: Groups, Social Identities, and Political Psychology
9. Partisan Hearts and Spleens: Social Identities and Political Change
10. It Feels Like We're Thinking: The Rationalizing Voter
11. Groups and Power: Toward a Realist Theory of Democracy
Appendix: Retrospective Voting as Selection and Sanctioning.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-369) and index.
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