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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... citizen is often gathered , transmitted , and analyzed by others . If the user is to know what his information really means in ... Rational Citizens Reduce Information Costs Introduction RATIONAL citizens THE PROCESS OF BECOMING INFORMED 219.
... citizen ; they accrue to him without any special effort on his part to find them . Thus their cost in time is ordinarily much lower than that of sought - for data . Sources ( 5 ) , ( 6 ) ... RATIONAL CITIZENS REDUCE INFORMATION COSTS 223.
... rational men . Let us examine these propositions in order . One thing that all citizens in our model have in common ... citizen is willing to bear at least some cost in order to insure himself against it . The more probable it appears , the ...