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200 10$aDemocratic devices and desires /$fby Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin$b[electronic resource]
210  1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2000.
215   $a1 online resource (x, 267 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
225 1 $aTheories of institutional design
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
311   $a0-521-63977-8 
311   $a0-521-63020-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-263) and index.
327   $aDemocratic 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.
330   $aThis book offers an account of key features of modern representative democracy. Working from the rational actor tradition, it builds a middle ground between orthodox political theory and the economic analysis of politics. Standard economic models of politics emphasise the design of the institutional devices of democracy as operated by essentially self-interested individuals. This book departs from that model by focusing on democratic desires alongside democratic devices, stressing that important aspects of democracy depend on the motivation of democrats and the interplay between devices and desires. Individuals are taken to be not only rational, but also somewhat moral. The authors argue that this approach provides access to aspects of the debate on democratic institutions that are beyond the narrowly economic model. They apply their analysis to voting, elections, representation, political departments and the separation and division of powers, providing a wide-ranging discussion of the design of democratic institutions.
410  0$aTheories of institutional design.
517 3 $aDemocratic Devices & Desires
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615  0$aDemocracy$xEconomic aspects.
615  0$aPolitical science$xEconomic aspects.
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700   $aBrennan$b Geoffrey$f1944-$0126951
702   $aHamlin$b Alan P.$f1951-
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