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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Anthony Downs. 5 The Meaning of Uncertainty I. THE NATURE OF UNCERTAINTY UNCERTAINTY is any lack of sure knowledge about the course of past , present , future , or hypothetical events . In terms of any particular decision , it may vary ...
... Uncertainty is irrelevant to a given decision if the decision is trivial , or if the uncertainty concerns knowledge not germane to it . Thus a man may have an extremely high degree of confidence about some of his decisions even if he ...
... uncertainty in politics , the more likely government is to be smaller - in terms of actions and size - than it would be in a perfectly informed democracy.22 22 This conclusion does not hold for extreme degrees of uncertainty . When ...