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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... preferences , since each knows his vote is of small significance . Perhaps a great many voters who are not indifferent would cease to be so if they found out their true views . However , the cost of information makes further research ir ...
... preferences from a population with diverse tastes . Until these difficulties were overcome , it hardly seemed worthwhile questioning the tacit assumption that government would carry out society's preferences once they were discovered.14 ...
... preferences receive the same weight ; whereas in a communist state , the preferences of Politburo members are weighted much more heavily than those of nonmem- bers . But the problem of maximizing social welfare , given individual ...