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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Achen, Christopher H.     Subjects     Democracy -- United States.     Elections -- United States.     Voting -- United States.     Political participation -- United States.     Representative government and representation -- United States.     United States -- Politics and government.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Achen, Christopher H.       by title:      Democracy for realis...         MARC Display

Democracy for realists : why elections do not produce responsive government / Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels. by Achen, Christopher H. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2016. Subjects Democracy -- United States.   Elections -- United States.   Voting -- United States.   Political participation -- United States.   Representative government and representation -- United States.   United States -- Politics and government. ISBN:  9780691169446 (hardcover : acid-free paper) : 0691169446 (hardcover : acid-free paper) Series:  Princeton studies in political behavior. Description:  xvi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  Achen 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 321.8 Ac Checked out 05/29/2024 Add Copy to MyList

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