This book examines whether mechanisms of accountability characteristic of democratic systems are sufficient to induce the representatives to act in the best interest of the represented. The first part of the volume focuses on the role of elections, distinguishing different ways in which they may cause representation. The second part is devoted to the role of checks and balances, between the government and the parliament as well as between the government and the bureaucracy. Overall, the essays combine theoretical discussions, game-theoretic models, case studies, and statistical analyses, within a shared analytical approach and a standardized terminology. The empirical material is drawn from the well established democracies as well as from new democracies.
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"In an introductory essay to Democracy, Accountability, and Representation, Przeworski, Stokes, and Manin helpfully lay out a set of definitions for thinking about mass-elite linkages." Comparative Politics, Andrew Roberts, The Quality of Democracy
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This book examines whether mechanisms of accountability characteristic of democratic systems, are sufficient to induce the representatives to act in the best interest of the represented. The first part of the volume focuses on the role of elections, distinguishing different ways in which they may cause representation. The second part is devoted to the role of checks and balances, between the government and the parliament as well as between the government and the bureaucracy. Overall, the essays combine theoretical discussions, game-theoretic models, case studies, and statistical analyses, within a shared analytical approach and a standardized terminology. The empirical material is drawn from the well established democracies as well as from new democracies.
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The claim connecting democracy and representation is that under democracy governments are representative because they are elected: if elections are freely contested, if participation is widespread, and if citizens enjoy political liberties, then governments will act in the best interest of the people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
policy switchers, parliamentary principals, public policy mood, selecting good types, sanctioning case, graphe paranomon, electorate sets, mandate representation, parliamentary actors, decisive voter, electoral sanction, moral hazard model, bad types, programmatic parties, policy switches, nonelected officials, rational anticipation, electoral control, repeated elections, pure selection, economic voting, efficiency policies, retrospective voting, sitting government, excess rents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The claim connecting democracy and representation is that under democracy governments are representative because they are elected: if elections are freely contested, if participation is widespread, and if citizens enjoy political liberties, then governments will act in the best interest of the people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
policy switchers, parliamentary principals, public policy mood, selecting good types, sanctioning case, graphe paranomon, electorate sets, mandate representation, parliamentary actors, decisive voter, electoral sanction, moral hazard model, bad types, programmatic parties, policy switches, nonelected officials, rational anticipation, electoral control, repeated elections, pure selection, economic voting, efficiency policies, retrospective voting, sitting government, excess rents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Latin American, United States, American Political Science Review, Dynamic Representation, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, Oxford University Press, European Community, New Haven, Yale University Press, American Political Science Association, Supreme Court, University of Chicago Press, Vargas Llosa, Comparative Political Studies, Federal Executive Committee, World Bank, American Economic Review, House of Representatives, Adam Przeworski, American Journal of Political Science, Great Britain, International Financial Statistics New!
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- The Principles of Representative Government (Themes in the Social Sciences) by Bernard Manin on 5 pages
- Economics and Politics: The Calculus of Support by Helmut Norpoth on 4 pages
- Retrospective Voting in American National Elections by Morris P. Fiorina on 4 pages
- Public Opinion by Carroll J. Glynn on 4 pages
- The Responsible Electorate: Rationality in Presidential Voting, 1936-1960 by V. O. Key Jr. on page 53, page 96, and page 194
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- Democracy and the Rule of Law (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy) by José María Maravall on 5 pages
- Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Susan C. Stokes on 5 pages
- Public Support for Market Reforms in New Democracies (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) by Susan C. Stokes on 5 pages
- Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies: Argentina and the Philippines in the 1990s by Kent Eaton on 4 pages
- The Concept of Constituency: Political Representation, Democratic Legitimacy, and Institutional Design by Andrew Rehfeld on page 187, page 189, and page 191
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