| 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. (5) |
| | Voting -- United States. (7) |
| | Political participation -- United States. (25) |
| | Representative government and representation -- United States. (5) |
| | Democracy -- United States. (18) |
| | United States -- Politics and government. (35) |
| Added Entry | Bartels, Larry M., 1956- |
| Holding | LIC |
