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050	1	4	_aJF 1001 _bA177d 2017
100	1		_aAchen, Christopher H., _d1946- _99937
245	1	0	_aDemocracy for realists : _bwhy elections do not produce responsive government / _cChristopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels.
260			_aPrinceton ; _aOxford : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2017.
300			_axvi, 400 pages _billustrations ; _c21 cm.
440	0		_aPrinceton studies in political behavior. _97653
505	0		_aPreface -- Democratic ideals and realities -- The elusive mandate: elections and the mirage of popular control -- Tumbling down into a democratical republick: "Pure democracy" and the pitfalls of popular control -- A rational God of vengeance and of reward? : the logic of retrosprective accountability -- Blind retrospection: electoral resposes to droughts, floods, and shark attacks -- Musical chairs: economic voting and the specious present -- A chicken in every pot: ideology and retrosprection in the Great Depression -- The very basis of reasons: groups, social identities, and political psychology -- Partisan hearts and spleens: social identities and political change -- It feels like we're thinking: the rationalizing voter -- Groups and power: toward a realist theory of democracy -- Appendix: Retrospective voting as selection and sanctioning -- Afterword to the paperback edition.
520			_aDemocracy 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.
650		4	_aDemocracia _zEstados Unidos _92815
650		4	_aElecciones _zEstados Unidos _9283
650		4	_aVoto _93436 _zEstados Unidos
650		4	_aParticipación política _9411 _zEstados Unidos
650		4	_aGobierno representativo _9410 _zEstados Unidos
651		4	_aEstados Unidos _xPolítica y gobierno _92191
700	1		_aBartels, Larry M. _q(Larry Martin), _d1956- _99938
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