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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... society and in a world of scarce resources ; so when each pursues his own goals , his actions affect other men . Furthermore , these other men never have precisely the same goals that he has . Therefore , conflicts between men ...
... society's allocation of resources efficient ; each seeks only to get elected by maximizing the number of votes it receives . Therefore even if the government has the ability to move society to a Paretian optimum , it will do so only if ...
... society which has a per capita income above the subsistence level , i.e. , in which nearly everyone produces an output in excess of what is necessary to keep him alive . In such societies , there is always some redistribution of income ...