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 to construct policies often aimed more at the good of a few voters than at the good of all , or even of a majority . To act otherwise would be irrational . As a result , voters in a democracy do not have equal influence on policy ...
... government policies affect them , ( 2 ) governments have about which citizens are affected , and ( 3 ) govern- ments ... policy he is likely to exercise - provided he informs the government what his preferences are . Conversely , the ...
... government's policy there . Thus a number of citizens simultaneously trying to appraise their own intervention values in area A resemble a number of oligopolists pondering each other's policies . Each must estimate what the others are ...