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. they want to vote . This does not mean that they know every fact relevant to their voting decision , nor that they are absolutely sure it is the best one they can make . It means they know enough to have reached a definite ...
Anthony Downs. Electoral systems in which similar thinking occurs exhibit con- jectural variation par excellence . Each man's voting decision depends on what he predicts other men are predicting , and the predictions of those others are ...
... decision they favor at the end of this time . If all men are thus quasi - informed passives , democracy will not collapse from lack of voting . But whether the voters themselves will succeed in selecting a government or whether they ...