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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
