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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... PROBLEM Exactly the same problem has long been the center of controversy in the new welfare economics , where Abram Bergson's " social wel- fare function " was advanced as a solution to it.18 Having rejected cardinal utility and ...
... problem : how to select a coalition government for which majority support can be obtained . Essentially , this is merely an acute version of the problem that faces every democratic government , no matter how voters are dis- tributed ...
... PROBLEM Most theories in normative economics tacitly assume that govern- ment will in fact maximize welfare once it knows how to do so . In our opinion , there are three reasons why economists have ignored the problem of government ...