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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... motives of those who run each party . Our model attempts to combine both these elements into one coherent theory of government operation . Though this theory is based on the self - interest axiom , we do not assume that the private ...
... motives . Being frictionless , their particular processes of operation do not affect their outputs . Therefore govern- 11 This study is , of course , such an attempt . An example of other similar at- tempts is the application of choice ...
... motives to political theorists , ( 2 ) Rousseau's ideas fostered the view that governments in a democracy have no real existence apart from the " will of the people , " and ( 3 ) economists have concentrated their attention upon the ...