TY  - BOOK
AU  - Achen,Christopher H.
TI  - Democracy for realists: why elections do not produce responsive government : with a new afterword by the authors
SN  - 9780691169446 
U1  - 321.8 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - Princeton university press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - United States
KW  - Elections
KW  - Voting
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-379) and index; List of Illustrations, p.ix -- Preface, p.xiii --; CHAPTER ONE; Democratic Ideals and Realities, p.1 --; CHAPTER TWO; The Elusive Mandate: Elections and the Mirage of Popular Control, p.21 --; CHAPTER THREE; Tumbling Down into a Democratical Republick: "Pure Democracy" and the Pitfalls of Popular Control, p.52 --; CHAPTER FOUR; A Rational God of Vengeance and of Reward? The Logic of Retrosprective Accountability, p.90 --; CHAPTER FIVE; Blind Retrospection: Electoral Resposes to Droughts, Floods, and Shark Attacks, p.116 --; CHAPTER SIX; Musical Chairs: Economic Voting and the Specious Present, p.146 --; CHAPTER SEVEN; A Chicken in Every Pot: Ideology and Retrosprection in the Great Depression, p.177 --; CHAPTER EIGHT; The Very Basis of Reasons: Groups, Social Identities, and Political Psychology, p.213 --; CHAPTER NINE; Partisan Hearts and Spleens: Social Identities and Political Change, p.232 --; CHAPTER TEN; It Feels Like We're Thinking: The Rationalizing Voter, p.267 --; CHAPTER ELEVEN; Groups and Power: Toward a Realist Theory of Democracy, p.297 --; APPENDIX; Retrospective Voting as Selection and Sanctioning, p.329 -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition, p.335 -- References, p.345 -- Index, p.381
ER  -