Organizing Democratic Choice offers a new, invigorating theory of how democracy actually works. It also presents a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns them.
Organizing Democratic Choice offers a new, invigorating theory of how democracy actually works. It also presents a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns them.
* Precis * Acknowledgements * Introduction: Representation as Process * Part I: Party Convergence and Beyond * 1: Convergence in Context: Simulating Party-Elector Interactions within a Downsian Framework * 2: Party Stability, Voting Cycles and Convergence: Comparative Evidence * 3: Unpacking the Convergence Model * Part II : Party Divergence: Causes and Consequences * 4: The Dynamics of Divergence - Ideology, Factionalism and Representation * Part III: Representing Voters * 5: Identifying Majority Preferences: Median or Plurality Voter? * 6: Representation over Time: Empowering both Modal and Median Preferences Through Policy Inertia - A Model and Simulation * 7: Representation and the Pace of Policy Change - A Comparative Over-Time Analysis * Part IV: Representing Citizens * 8: The Nature of Citizen Preferences: Meaningful and Stable? * 9: Relating Elector to Voter Preferences * 10: Citizen Preferences and Public Policy * Part V: The Representational Process * 11: Parties Diverge Around Electors - But Not Too Much. Policy Responds - But Not Too Fast. * 12: Partisan Governments, Centrist Electors: Resolving the Paradox of Party Representation * 13: Representing Representation: A Core Theory for Political Science
* Precis * Acknowledgements * Introduction: Representation as Process * Part I: Party Convergence and Beyond * 1: Convergence in Context: Simulating Party-Elector Interactions within a Downsian Framework * 2: Party Stability, Voting Cycles and Convergence: Comparative Evidence * 3: Unpacking the Convergence Model * Part II : Party Divergence: Causes and Consequences * 4: The Dynamics of Divergence - Ideology, Factionalism and Representation * Part III: Representing Voters * 5: Identifying Majority Preferences: Median or Plurality Voter? * 6: Representation over Time: Empowering both Modal and Median Preferences Through Policy Inertia - A Model and Simulation * 7: Representation and the Pace of Policy Change - A Comparative Over-Time Analysis * Part IV: Representing Citizens * 8: The Nature of Citizen Preferences: Meaningful and Stable? * 9: Relating Elector to Voter Preferences * 10: Citizen Preferences and Public Policy * Part V: The Representational Process * 11: Parties Diverge Around Electors - But Not Too Much. Policy Responds - But Not Too Fast. * 12: Partisan Governments, Centrist Electors: Resolving the Paradox of Party Representation * 13: Representing Representation: A Core Theory for Political Science
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