Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well (The MIT Press) - Hardcover

Oppenheimer, Danny; Edwards, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262017237 ISBN 13: 9780262017237

Verlag: MIT Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevant information. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch with the will of the people. Elections can be determined by the design of the ballot and the gerrymandered borders of a district. And yet, despite voters who choose candidates according to the boxerbrief dichotomy and politicians who struggle to put together a coherent sentence, democracy works exceptionally well: citizens of democracies are healthier, happier, and freer than citizens of other countries. In Democracy Despite Itself, Danny Oppenheimer and Mike Edwards explore this seeming paradox: How can democracy lead to such successful outcomes when the defining characteristic of democracy, elections, is so flawed? Oppenheimer and Edwards argue that democracy works because regular elections, no matter how flawed, produce a variety of unintuitive, positive consequences.

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Danny Oppenheimer is on the faculty at UCLA with a joint appointment in Psychology and the Anderson School of Management.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262017237
• ISBN 13: 9780262017237
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
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