ISBN | 9780691169446 |
Call Number | JK1726 .A23 2016 |
Author | Achen, Christopher H. |
Title | Democracy for realists : why elections do not produce responsive government / Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels. |
Imprint | New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016. |
Physical | xvi, 390 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Series | Princeton Studies in Political Behavior. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-369) and index. |
Content | Chapter 1. Democratic ideals and realities -- Chapter 2. The elusive mandate: elections and the mirage of popular control -- Chapter 3. Tumbling down into a democratical republick: "pure democracy" and the pitfalls of popular control -- Chapter 4. A raional god of vengeance and of reward ? The logic of retrospective accountability -- Chapter 5. Blind retrospection: electoral responses to droughts, floods, and shark atacks -- Chapter 6. Muscial chairs: economic voting and the specious present -- Chapter 7. A chickenin every pot: ideology and retrospection in the Great depression -- Chapter 8. The very basis of reasons: groups, social identities, and political psychology -- Chapter 9. Partisan hearts and spleens: social identities and political change -- Chapter 10. It feels like We're thinking: the rationalizing voter -- Chapter 11. Groups and power: toward a realist theory of democracy -- Appendix: Retrospective voting as selection and sanctioning. |
Subject | Elections -- United States. (6) |
| Voting -- United States. (7) |
| Political participation -- United States. (26) |
| Representative government and representation -- United States. (5) |
| Democracy -- United States. (19) |
| United States -- Politics and government. (35) |
Added Entry | Bartels, Larry M., 1956- |
Holding | LIC |