Rational Foundations of Democratic Politics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Breton, Albert

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Democracy is widely accepted today, perhaps as never before, as the most suitable form of government. But what is democracy, and does it always produce good government? Democracy is often associated with the existence of competitive elections. But theory and experience suggest that these are not sufficient for democracy to function reasonably well. In this book, which was originally published in 2003, a number of experts from North America and Europe use a rational choice approach to understand the 'foundations' of democracy - what makes democracy successful, and why. In doing so, they consider diverse problems of democratic governance such as the importance of morals or virtue in political life, negative advertising, the role of social capital and civil society in sustaining democracy, the constitutional and cultural prerequisites of democracy, and the interaction of democracy and markets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511055676
• Artikelnr.: 38196731

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronald
Wintrobe; Part I. Some Problems with Democratic Institutions and Trends in
Their Evolution: 2. Demobilization, demoralization and the loosening bonds
of electoral politics Michael C. Munger; 3. Turning 'citizens' into
'consumers': economic growth and the level of public discourse Stergios
Skaperdas; 4. Economic and cultural prerequisites for democracy Roger D.
Congleton; 5. Civil society and the contemporary social order Frédérique
Chaumont-Chancelier; Part II. Morals in Politics: 6. When does altruism
overcome the intransitivity of income redistribution? Donald Wittman; 7.
Democratic resilience and the necessity of virtue Alan Hamlin; Part III.
Social Capital: 8. The optimal level of solidarity Ronald Wintrobe; 9. The
bonds of democratic politics - an economic perspective Stefan Voigt; Part
IV. The Role of Constitutions: 10. Voting rules: a constitutional quandary
Gianluigi Galeotti; 11. Citizens' sovereignty, constitutional commitments
and renegotiation: original vs. continuing agreement Viktor J. Vanberg; 12.
Constitutional rules and competitive politics: their effects on
secessionism Albert Breton and Pierre Salmon.