Lupia Arthur, Arthur Lupia, Mathew D. McCubbins

The Democratic Dilemma

Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Can only well-informed citizens make good political decisions? In THE DEMOCRATIC DILEMMA, the authors combine insights from political science, economics and the cognitive sciences to determine how citizens gather and use information. They then demonstrates when citizens who lack information can (and cannot) make the same decisions they would have made if better informed. Illustrated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521585934
• ISBN-10: 0521585937
• Artikelnr.: 21167213

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables and figures
Series editors' preface
Acknowledgements
1. Knowledge and the foundation of democracy
Part I. Theory: 2. How people learn
3. How people learn from others
4. What people learn from others
5. Delegation and democracy
Part II. Experiments: 6. Theory, predictions and the scientific method
7. Laboratory experiments on information, persuasion and choice
8. Laboratory experiments on delegation
9. A survey on the conditions for persuasion
Part III. Implications for Institutional Design: 10. The institutions of knowledge
Afterword
Appendices
References
Author index
Subject index.