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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... abstain . Finally , some rational men habitually vote for the same party in every election . In several preceding elections , they carefully informed themselves about all the competing parties , and all the issues of the moment ; yet ...
... abstain all the time , others abstain sometimes , and others never abstain . 2. The percentage of the electorate abstaining varies from election to election . 8 This list shows clearly the reason why the motive for voting is stronger ...
... abstain also have no influence on who wins the election . Thus voting behavior is a crucial determinant of the distribution of political power . There are two reasons to suspect that the proportion of low - income citizens who abstain ...