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100 1 _aAchen, Christopher H.,
_eauthor.
_98155
245 1 0 _aDemocracy for realists :
_bwhy elections do not produce responsive government /
_cChristopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels.
246 3 _aWhy elections do not produce responsive government
264 1 _aPrinceton :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c2016
300 _axvi, 390 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 335-369) and index
505 0 _a 1. Democratic Ideals and Realities -- 2. The Elusive Mandate: Elections and the Mirage of Popular Control -- 3. Tumbling Down into a Democratical Republick: "Pure Democracy" and the Pitfalls of Popular Control -- 4. A Rational God of Vengeance and of Reward? The Logic of Retrospective Accountability -- 5. Blind Retrospection: Electoral Responses to Droughts, Floods, and Shark Attacks -- 6. Musical Chairs: Economic Voting and the Specious Present -- 7. A Chicken in Every Pot: Ideology and Retrospection in the Great Depression -- 8. The Very Basis of Reasons: Groups, Social Identities, and Political Psychology -- 9. Partisan Hearts and Spleens: Social Identities and Political Change -- 10. It Feels Like We're Thinking: The Rationalizing Voter -- 11. Groups and Power: Toward a Realist Theory of Democracy -- Appendix: Retrospective Voting as Selection and Sanctioning.
520 0 0 _aAchen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government. --Publisher.
650 0 _aDemocracy
_zUnited States.
_98156
650 0 _aElections
_zUnited States.
_918914
650 0 _aVoting
_zUnited States.
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650 0 _aPolitical participation
_zUnited States.
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650 0 _aRepresentative government and representation
_zUnited States.
_98160
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government.
_98161
700 1 _aBartels, Larry M.,
_d1956-
_eauthor.
_98162
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