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Democratic devices and desires /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Democratic devices and desires // by Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin.
其他題名:	Democratic Devices & Desires
作者:	Brennan, Geoffrey,
其他作者:	Hamlin, Alan P.,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (x, 267 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Political science - Economic aspects. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490194
ISBN:	9780511490194 (ebook)

Democratic devices and desires /
Brennan, Geoffrey,1944-

Democratic devices and desires /Democratic Devices & Desiresby Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin. - 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Theories of institutional design. - Theories of institutional design..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Democratic desires. On human nature: beyond homo economicus -- Moral dispositions -- Economising on virtue -- Political mechanisms -- Mechanisms and dispositional choice -- Problems of democratic politics -- Democratic devices. Voting and elections -- Political representation -- Political parties -- The separation of powers -- The division of power.

This book offers an account of key features of modern representative democracy. Working from the rational actor tradition, it builds a middle ground between orthodox political theory and the economic analysis of politics. Standard economic models of politics emphasise the design of the institutional devices of democracy as operated by essentially self-interested individuals. This book departs from that model by focusing on democratic desires alongside democratic devices, stressing that important aspects of democracy depend on the motivation of democrats and the interplay between devices and desires. Individuals are taken to be not only rational, but also somewhat moral. The authors argue that this approach provides access to aspects of the debate on democratic institutions that are beyond the narrowly economic model. They apply their analysis to voting, elections, representation, political departments and the separation and division of powers, providing a wide-ranging discussion of the design of democratic institutions.

ISBN: 9780511490194 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1444510
Political science
--Economic aspects.

LC Class. No.: JC423 / .B783 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 321.8

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