A major piece of work . . . a classic. There is no other book like it. Norman Schofield, Washington University The authors succeed brilliantly in tackling a large number of important questions concerning the interaction among voters and elected representatives in the political arena, using a common, rigorous language. Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania Positive Political Theory II: Strategy and Structure is the second volume in Jeffrey Banks and David Austen-Smith s monumental study of the links between individual preferences and...
A major piece of work . . . a classic. There is no other book like it. Norman Schofield, Washington University The authors succeed brillia...
The Logic of Democracy examines some of the broadest questions in political sciencewhat is democracy and how does it workand provides a unified theory to explain them. McGann brings together the often antagonistic literature on normative political philosophy, social choice, and the empirical study of political institutions to show that it is possible to provide answers for many outstanding problems prevalent in all three. This ranks with Riker and Mackie as one of the most important works in democratic theory of the last thirty years. McGann slices through fashionable nonsense...
The Logic of Democracy examines some of the broadest questions in political sciencewhat is democracy and how does it workand provides a unified...
There is no unified theory that can explain both voter choice and where choices come from. Hinich and Munger fill that gap with their model of political communication based on ideology. Rather than beginning with voters and diffuse, atomistic preferences, Hinich and Munger explore why large groups of voters share preference profiles, why they consider themselves "liberals" or "conservatives." The reasons, they argue, lie in the twin problems of communication and commitment that politicians face. Voters, overloaded with information, ignore specific platform positions. Parties and candidates...
There is no unified theory that can explain both voter choice and where choices come from. Hinich and Munger fill that gap with their model of politic...
R. Michael Alvarez examines how voters make their decisions in presidential elections. He begins with the assumption that voters have neither the incentive nor the inclination to be well-informed about politics and presidential candidates. Candidates themselves have incentives to provide ambiguous information about themselves, their records and their issue positions. Yet the author shows that a tremendous amount of information is made available about presidential candidates. And he uncovers clear and striking evidence that people are not likely to vote for candidates about whom they know very...
R. Michael Alvarez examines how voters make their decisions in presidential elections. He begins with the assumption that voters have neither the ince...
