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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... government takes and what actions the oppo- sition says it would take were it in office . In this chapter , we have ... action . e stands for the date of the election at the end of period t . P stands for the strategies of the opposition ...
... government can carry out unequivocally good acts which a free market would leave undone , the social benefits from government action ... government intervenes in the free market . However , a government intervention under such conditions does ...
... government is uncertain about the factual out- comes of various policy alternatives , as well as their impacts upon ... action , even when government action in fact causes those changes . In other words , government may not know how much ...