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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... conclusion that each party in a multiparty system will try to differentiate its product sharply from the products of all other parties , whereas each party in a two - party system will try to resemble its rival . To illustrate this ...
... conclusion as follows : men are more likely to exert political influence in their roles as income - receivers than in their roles as income- spenders , whether acting as private citizens or as members of a cor- porate entity . This ...
... conclusion can be questioned on two counts . First , are indifferent voters equally pleased by all parties or equally repelled by them ? When a large portion of the electorate is indiffer- ent - as often seems to be the case in reality ...