Beschreibung
It was Anthony Downs' objective to create a model dealing with voter and government behavior. In order to do so, he established goals which governments, parties and lobbyists as well as the voters can pursue. To motivate all those concerned, he introduced the self-interest axiom and called for rationality in order to attain these goals. With the help of marginal analysis, each voter determines his/her party differential, which will help to determine each voter's choice at the ballot box and to decide which party's rule will give him/her greater utility in the future. Downs describes how crucial the concept of ideology is to his theory. He maintains that a two-party democracy could not provide stable and effective government unless there is a large measure of ideological consensus amongst its citizens, and that political parties encouraged voters to be irrational by remaining vague and ambiguous.
Autorenporträt
Rudolf Wildenmann (Herausgegeben von) 1952 Promotion; 1962 Habilitation; ab 1964 Inhaber des Lehrstuhl für Politische Wissenschaft I an der Universität Mannheim; 1989 Emeritierung. Anthony Downs (Von (Autor)) Geboren 1930; 1956 Promotion an der Stanford University; war u.a. Professor an der University of Chicago, Analyst der RAND Corporation und Präsident der Real Estate Research Corporation; seit 1977 Senior Fellow für Ökonomische Studien an der Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.
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