on JSTOR. The developments in survey research, political psychology, and social choice theory summarized in chapter 2 severely undercut the intellectual foundations of the folk theory of democracy. Dionne, Washington Post, "According to some conventional accounts of democracy, these systems work. "Donald R. Kinder, coauthor of The End of Race? Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for allMany blame
--Glenn Altschuler, Tulsa World, "The 2016 election cycle has confounded a good deal of scholarship and punditry so far. . . Those loyalties, not the facts of political life and government policy, are the primary drivers of political behavior. 7,80 €, 19,00 € The first class we called “populist,” conveying the notion that the political preferences of ordinary people should be the foundation of good government. They choose leaders who will do those things, or they enact their preferences directly in referendums. In Abraham Lincoln’s stirring words from the Gettysburg Address, democratic government is “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” That way of thinking about democracy has passed into... Robert Dahl (1956, 1) began A Preface to Democratic Theory by acknowledging that “there is no democratic theory—there are only democratic theories.” Nevertheless, he noted (1956, 34–35) that “running through the whole history of democratic theories is the identification of ‘democracy’ with political equality, popular sovereignty, and rule by majorities”—a notion of “Populistic Democracy” he associated with such diverse thinkers as Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, de Tocqueville, and Lincoln. They can serve as guides for shaping and reshaping concrete arrangements, constitutions, practices, and political institutions. Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Scholars, they argue, should now reorient toward group attachments as the foundation of democratic politics. Perhaps for this reason, nearly all contemporary political regimes, no matter how repressive, claim to be democracies of some sort.
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22,50 €, 13,67 € Americans may be surprised to see that the United States (with an average rating of 8.4) is unremarkable in its enthusiasm for democracy. Nonetheless, we believe that a democratic theory worthy of serious social influence must engage with the findings of modern social science. 13,90 €, 14,89 € It raises questions that every democratic theorist and practitioner should take seriously. 15,50 €, 20,32 € The Very Basis of Reasons: Groups, Social Identities, and Political Psychology, Chapter Nine.
--Ilya Somin, History News Network "Provocative, persuasive and unsettling, Democracy for Realists is a profoundly important--and timely--book." --Henry E. Brady, coauthor of The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy, "The most clear-eyed take on American democracy I have read in a long time." In the other, the people rule through "direct democracy," choosing policies themselves via initiative and referendum procedures. Prominent intellectuals, too, have embodied both these contradictory impulses. Notice: Due to building closures, requests will take approximately 2 weeks to fill. The Logic of Retrospective Accountability, Chapter Five. That way of thinking about democracy has passed into everyday wisdom, not just in the United States but in a great many other countries around the globe. A rigidly conservative Republican government resisted public pressure to provide energetic relief and institutional reforms. . The truth, as political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels describe in Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, is that voters are tribalistic." Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. Cookies are used to provide, analyse and improve our services; provide chat tools; and show you relevant content on advertising. The Elusive Mandate: Elections and the Mirage of Popular Control. 21,60 €, 15,18 € Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America, Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016 One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 "The best book to understand the 2016 campaign." Figure 1.1 shows the average responses on the one-to-ten scale for the 34 most populous countries in the survey. Javascript is not enabled in your browser.
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