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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... opposition parties : V'e = f2 ( Ut , Pt ) 3. Voters actually vote according to changes in their utility incomes and alternatives offered by the opposition : Ve = f3 ( Ut , Pt ) 4. Voters ' utility incomes from government activity depend ...
... opposition party can make statements but cannot take action.s What voters must make judgments about in the election are ( X ) and ( Y ) , but these potential future actions can be predicted only through knowledge of events in periods T1 ...
... party is going to do in the future , especially if election periods are long . Therefore opposition parties must be reliable ; i.e. , voters must be able to pre- dict their actions reasonably well from what they say . If an opposition party ...