Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels

Democracy for Realists

Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (New Afterword by the Authors)

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original

Produktdetails

• Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 136mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9780691178240
• ISBN-10: 0691178240
• Artikelnr.: 47739438

Autorenporträt

Christopher H. Achen is the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and professor of politics at Princeton University. His books include The European Union Decides. Larry M. Bartels holds the May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His books include Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Princeton).

Rezensionen

"For decades, political scientists have blasted away at electoral models based primarily on the idea of rational choice. In the most recent and sophisticated entry in the field, Democracy for Realists, Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels argue that even well-informed and politically engaged voters mostly choose candidates based on their social identities and partisan loyalties. Judging from the 2016 polls, that theory looks pretty good."--E.J. Dionne, Washington Post