عنوان

Altruism and self-interest in democracies :

شابک

1137403187

شابک

9781137403186

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Altruism and self-interest in democracies :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

individual participation in government /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Richard Jankowski

وضعيت ويراست

First edition

نام خاص و کميت اثر

195 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

23 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Introduction -- 1. Why Participate in Politics? : Beyond Self-Interest -- 2. Why Vote?: The Evidence -- 3. Why Become Politically Informed? -- 4. The Post-Election Phase : Public Interest Groups -- 5. A Gene for Altruism? -- 6. Altruism and Redistributive Government Policies -- 7. Altruistic Conservatives : Varieties of Conservatism -- 8. An Epistemic Defense of Democracy : Democracies Do it Better? -- 9. Representative Democracy: Electoral and Post-Electoral

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"Individuals have little incentive to vote, acquire political information or contribute campaign funds, because their vote has very little chance of affecting the outcome of an election. Jankowski offers an explanation and evidence for political participation based on the fact that most individuals are weakly altruistic. Other proposed explanations of political participation (civic duty and expressive behavior) are not supported by the evidence, or fail to explain the many different forms of political participation, such as the acquisition of political information. Evidence is presented that liberals and conservatives are equally altruistic. Therefore, an explanation of why liberals and conservatives differ in their support of various government programs to help the needy is presented. Jankowski's analysis examines both the electoral and post-electoral phases of representative democracy. In the post-election phase, interest groups and elected representatives dominate the policy process. It is shown that altruistic individuals exert their influence primarily through public interest groups"--

موضوع مستند نشده

Altruism-- Political aspects

موضوع مستند نشده

Democracy

موضوع مستند نشده

Political participation-- Philosophy

موضوع مستند نشده

Voting research

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jankowski, Richard,1946-

تاريخ عمليات

20150820150534.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y