Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government — Identity and the Vote
What if elections do not primarily translate citizens’ policy preferences into government?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
In Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels challenge the familiar image of democracy as a system in which informed citizens select leaders according to stable policy preferences and then hold them accountable for their performance.
Their evidence points toward a more complicated system. Voters may possess limited political knowledge, respond…
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