Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice write by Melvin J. Hinich. This book was released on 2010-08-27. Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is no unified theory that can explain both voter choice and where choices come from. Hinich and Munger fill that gap with their model of political communication based on ideology. Rather than beginning with voters and diffuse, atomistic preferences, Hinich and Munger explore why large groups of voters share preference profiles, why they consider themselves "liberals" or "conservatives." The reasons, they argue, lie in the twin problems of communication and commitment that politicians face. Voters, overloaded with information, ignore specific platform positions. Parties and candidates therefore communicate through simple statements of goals, analogies, and by invoking political symbols. But politicians must also commit to pursuing the actions implied by these analogies and symbols. Commitment requires that ideologies be used consistently, particularly when it is not in the party's short-run interest. The model Hinich and Munger develop accounts for the choices of voters, the goals of politicians, and the interests of contributors. It is an important addition to political science and essential reading for all in that discipline. "Hinich and Munger's study of ideology and the theory of political choice is a pioneering effort to integrate ideology into formal political theory. It is a major step in directing attention toward the way in which ideology influences the nature of political choices." --Douglass C. North ". . . represents a significant contribution to the literature on elections, voting behavior, and social choice." --Policy Currents Melvin Hinich is Professor of Government, University of Texas. Michael C. Munger is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina.
Ideology
Ideology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ideology write by Michael Freeden. This book was released on 2003-06-26. Ideology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, inciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking, without which we cannot make sense of the political world. The reader is introduced to their vitality and force, utilizing insights from a range of disciplines, and through examining the arguments of the main ideologies.
Ideologies and Political Theory
Ideologies and Political Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ideologies and Political Theory write by Michael Freeden. This book was released on 1996-10-24. Ideologies and Political Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ideologies play a crucial role in the way the political world is shaped. Using the political experience of Britain, France, Germany, and the USA, this work examines political ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, feminism and green politics.
The Limits of Public Choice
The Limits of Public Choice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Limits of Public Choice write by Lars Udehn. This book was released on 2002-09-11. The Limits of Public Choice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public choice has been one of the most important developments in the social sciences in the last twenty years. However there are many people who are frustrated by the uncritical importing of ideas from economics into political science. Public Choice uses both empirical evidence and theoretical analysis to argue that the economic theory of politics is limited in scope and fertility. In order to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of political life, political scientists must learn from both economists and sociologists.
Democratic Theory as Public Philosophy: The Alternative to Ideology and Utopia
Democratic Theory as Public Philosophy: The Alternative to Ideology and Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratic Theory as Public Philosophy: The Alternative to Ideology and Utopia write by Norman Wintrop. This book was released on 2017-11-01. Democratic Theory as Public Philosophy: The Alternative to Ideology and Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title was first published in 2000: This text contends that there are pronounced ideological (apologetic) and utopian biases in how democracy is now viewed by most academic writers, politicians and journalists. Ideological biases result from democracy being seen in formal and procedural ways as parliaments, free elections and competitive parties and pressure groups - irrespective of the standards which guide or the effects produced by these procedures. Utopian democrats reject this narrow empiricism for normative approaches and, instead of realistic norms, they offer impractical, perfectionist and counter-productive standards and goals. As the alternative to ideology and utopia, the author builds upon and draws conclusions from a realistic and normative, public philosophic tradition of writing on democratic politics. This tradition is explained and illustrated by critical responses to Walter Lippman's conception of public philosophy, Lippman's activity as a public philosopher, and the work of major democratic theorists from Alexis de Tocqueville to Giovanni Sartori.
