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Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference

Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference

Brennan, Geoffrey
Brennan, H. Geoffrey
Lomasky, Loren E.

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EconomicsGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0521330408
ISBN13: 9780521330404
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 26 1993
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Do voters in large scale democracies reliably vote for the electoral outcomes most in their own 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 critique the dominant interest-based theory of voting and offer a competing theory, which they term an expressive theory of electoral politics. This theory is shown to be more coherent and more consistent with actually observed voting behavior. In particular, the theory does a better job of explaining the propensity of democratic regimes to make war, the predominance of moral questions on democratic regimes to make war, the predominance of moral questions on democratic political agendas, and the distribution of government resources in democratic systems. This important book offers a compelling challenge to the central premises of the prevailing theories of voting behavior and should serve as the basis for fundamental reevaluation in the field.

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