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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... ( Derived from Chapter 4. ) Proposition 3 : In a two - party system , party policies are ( a ) more vague , ( b ) more similar to those of other parties , and ( c ) less directly linked to an ideology than in a multiparty system . ( De ...
... ( Derived from Chapter 3. ) Proposition 11 : Many citizens who vote and consider voting im- portant are nevertheless not well - informed on the issues involved in the election.3 ( Derived from Chapters 6 and 13. ) Proposition 12 : Because ...
... ( Derived from Chapters 3 and 6. ) Proposition 17 : Many citizens delegate even the evaluative steps in voting to others and follow the advice of those others in casting their ballots . ( Derived from Chapter 12. ) Proposition 18 ...