Democracy and Decision
The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 26 March 1993
- ISBN 9780521330404
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 242x161x22 mm
- Weight 611 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
This important book offers a compelling challenge to the central premises of the prevailing theories of voting behaviour.
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Do voters in large scale democracies reliably vote for the electoral outcomes most in their interest? Much of the literature on voting predicts that they do, but this book argues that fully rational voters will not, in fact, consistently vote for the political outcomes they prefer. The authors offer a theory of voting which they term an 'expressive' theory of electoral politics. This theory is shown to be more coherent and more consistent with actual observed voting behaviour. This important book offers a compelling challenge to the central premises of the prevailing theories of voting behaviour.
"[This] book contains a number of fascinating discussions of political rhetoric, contract theories, political institutions, and democratic morality." Ethics
Table of Contents:
1. Ethics, politics and public choice; 2. The logic of electoral choice; 3. The nature of expressive returns; 4. The analytics of decisiveness; 5. The theory of electoral outcome: implications for public choice theory; 6. From anecdote to analysis; 7. Interpreting the numbers; 8. Consensus, efficiency and contractarian justification; 9. Paternalism, self-paternalism and the state; 10. Towards a democratic morality; 11. Constitutional implications; Bibliography.
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