An Economic Theory of DemocracyHarper, 1957 - 310 pages 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. |
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... citizens in society - P , Q , and R - and three suboptimal posi- tions - X , Y , and Z - each of which is dominated by a corresponding optimum - X ' , Y ' , and Z ' . Every citizen prefers each optimum to its corresponding suboptimal ...
... citizen X is interested in the policy government adopts in economic area A , from which X obtains his income . Even if X does nothing at all re influ- ence - fails to inform himself and fails to communicate with govern- ment ...
... X would make if he himself could set policy in that area , altering it from what it would be without his intervention to what he would most like it to be . Citizen X's intervention value depends upon what influence other citizens are ...