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. 54662-200 Foreword Contents PART I BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE MODEL 1. Introduction 2. Party Motivation and the Function of Government in Society 3. The Basic Logic of Voting 4. The Basic Logic of Government Decision - Making ...
... basic revenue - raising devices which the government knows cost less in votes than would cessation of those activities they support . Thus the crucial weigh- ing of votes occurs at the margins of both expenditure and revenue patterns ...
... BASIC DETERMINANT OF A NATION'S POLITICS From everything we have said , it is clear that a basic determinant of how a nation's political life develops is the distribution of voters along the political scale , assuming our oversimplified ...