| Description |
xvi, 390 pages. : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-369) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. |
| Subject(S) |
Elections.
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Voting.
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Democracy.
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Political participation.
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Representative government and representation.
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| Added Name(S) |
Bartels, Larry M., 1956-
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| Added Title |
Why elections do not produce responsive government |
| ISBN |
9780691169446 |
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0691169446 |
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