\aDemocracy for realists : \b why elections do not produce responsive government / \c Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels.
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\aNew Jersey : \b Princeton University Press, \c 2016.
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\axvi, 390 p. : \b ill. ; \c 25 cm.
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\aPrinceton Studies in Political Behavior.
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\aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 335-369) and index.
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\aChapter 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.
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\aElections \z United States.
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\aVoting \z United States.
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\aPolitical participation \z United States.
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\aRepresentative government and representation \z United States.