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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Anthony Downs. the degree of confidence with which a decision - maker makes his de- cision . If added knowledge ... making the right decision he becomes . And the more confident he is , the less he must discount the gains from being right ...
... decision - making because of the pressure of events . These conditions impose the necessity of selection upon all decision- makers , who must choose from the vast supply of data that exist only a limited number to use in their decisions ...
... decision- making , he must be sure these others have the same principles of selection he has , or know how their principles differ from his . Even choosing one's own selection principles is difficult , but by a process of trial and ...