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Democracy for Realists

Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

Larry M. Bartels, Christopher H. Achen

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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Politikwissenschaft

Beschreibung

Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it

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 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. They demonstrate that voters—even those who are well informed and politically engaged—mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues. They also show that voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties. When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents' control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly.

Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Now with new analysis of the 2016 elections, 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.

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Welfare, African Americans, Ideology, White Southerners, Political science, Estimation, John Dewey, Americans, Citizens (Spanish political party), Democratic ideals, Voting behavior, Economic growth, Public sphere, Income, Party identification, Politics, Party leader, Political party, Politics of the United States, Direct democracy, The American Voter, Jimmy Carter, Tax, Identity (social science), Institution, Political philosophy, Standard error, Representative democracy, Popular sovereignty, Deliberation, Issue voting, Advocacy group, Candidate, Populism, Voting, Elite, Employment, Calculation, Solid South, Economics, Election, Two-party system, Democracy, Accountability, Nomination, Public opinion, Incumbent, Opinion poll, Percentage point, Economy, Unemployment, Communism, Inference, Government, Woodrow Wilson, Term limit, Drought, Public policy, Party system, Republican Party (United States), Primary election, Major party, Demagogue, Left-wing politics, Political campaign, Policy, Politician, Liberalism, Defection, Referendum