A Logic Of Expressive Choice

Author : Alexander A. Schuessler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691006628

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A Logic of Expressive Choice by Alexander A. Schuessler Pdf

Alexander Schuessler has done what many deemed impossible: he has wedded rational choice theory and the concerns of social theory and anthropology to explain why people vote. The "paradox of participation"--why individuals cast ballots when they have virtually no effect on electoral outcomes--has long puzzled social scientists. And it has particularly troubled rational choice theorists, who like to describe political activity in terms of incentives. Schuessler's ingenious solution is a "logic of expressive choice." He argues in incentive-based (or "economic") terms that individuals vote not because of how they believe their vote matters in the final tally but rather to express their preferences, allegiances, and thus themselves. Through a comparative history of marketing and campaigning, Schuessler generates a "jukebox model" of participation and shows that expressive choice has become a target for those eliciting mass participation and public support. Political advisers, for example, have learned to target voters' desire to express--to themselves and to others--who they are. Candidates, using tactics such as claiming popularity, invoking lifestyle, using ambiguous campaign themes, and shielding supporters from one another can get out their vote even when it is clear that an election is already lost or won. This important work, the first of its kind, will appeal to anyone seeking to decipher voter choice and turnout, social movements, political identification, collective action, and consumer behavior, including scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates in political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, and marketing. It will contribute greatly to our understanding and prediction of democratic participation patterns and their consequences.

Author : Alexander A. Schuessler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691222417

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A Logic of Expressive Choice by Alexander A. Schuessler Pdf

Alexander Schuessler has done what many deemed impossible: he has wedded rational choice theory and the concerns of social theory and anthropology to explain why people vote. The "paradox of participation"--why individuals cast ballots when they have virtually no effect on electoral outcomes--has long puzzled social scientists. And it has particularly troubled rational choice theorists, who like to describe political activity in terms of incentives. Schuessler's ingenious solution is a "logic of expressive choice." He argues in incentive-based (or "economic") terms that individuals vote not because of how they believe their vote matters in the final tally but rather to express their preferences, allegiances, and thus themselves. Through a comparative history of marketing and campaigning, Schuessler generates a "jukebox model" of participation and shows that expressive choice has become a target for those eliciting mass participation and public support. Political advisers, for example, have learned to target voters' desire to express--to themselves and to others--who they are. Candidates, using tactics such as claiming popularity, invoking lifestyle, using ambiguous campaign themes, and shielding supporters from one another can get out their vote even when it is clear that an election is already lost or won. This important work, the first of its kind, will appeal to anyone seeking to decipher voter choice and turnout, social movements, political identification, collective action, and consumer behavior, including scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates in political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, and marketing. It will contribute greatly to our understanding and prediction of democratic participation patterns and their consequences.

Author : Roger D. Congleton,Bernard N. Grofman,Stefan Voigt
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190469733

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The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice by Roger D. Congleton,Bernard N. Grofman,Stefan Voigt Pdf

"This two-volume collection provides a comprehensive overview of the past seventy years of public choice research, written by experts in the fields surveyed. The individual chapters are more than simple surveys, but provide readers with both a sense of the progress made and puzzles that remain. Most are written with upper level undergraduate and graduate students in economics and political science in mind, but many are completely accessible to non-expert readers who are interested in Public Choice research. The two-volume set will be of broad interest to social scientists, policy analysts, and historians"--

Author : Roger D. Congleton,Bernard N. Grofman,Stefan Voigt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190469740

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The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice by Roger D. Congleton,Bernard N. Grofman,Stefan Voigt Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice provides a comprehensive overview of the research in economics, political science, law, and sociology that has generated considerable insight into the politics of democratic and authoritarian systems as well as the influence of different institutional frameworks on incentives and outcomes. The result is an improved understanding of public policy, public finance, industrial organization, and macroeconomics as the combination of political and economic analysis shed light on how various interests compete both within a given rules of the games and, at times, to change the rules. These volumes include analytical surveys, syntheses, and general overviews of the many subfields of public choice focusing on interesting, important, and at times contentious issues. Throughout the focus is on enhancing understanding how political and economic systems act and interact, and how they might be improved. Both volumes combine methodological analysis with substantive overviews of key topics. This first volume covers voting and elections; interest group competition and rent seeking, including corruption and various normative approaches to evaluating policies and politics. Throughout both volumes important analytical concepts and tools are discussed, including their application to substantive topics. Readers will gain increased understanding of rational choice and its implications for collective action; various explanations of voting, including economic and expressive; the role of taxation and finance in government dynamics; how trust and persuasion influence political outcomes; and how revolution, coups, and authoritarianism can be explained by the same set of analytical tools as enhance understanding of the various forms of democracy.

Author : Jens Meierhenrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108425391

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The Violence of Law by Jens Meierhenrich Pdf

""Lawfare" describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends which, in post-genocide Rwanda, contributed to the making of dictatorship. Jens Meierhenrich explains how and why Paul Kagame's Tutsi-led government in the period 1994-2019 learned to substitute law for war in its consolidation of authoritarian rule"--

Author : Michael Reksulak,Laura Razzolini,William F. Shughart
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849806039

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The Elgar Companion to Public Choice by Michael Reksulak,Laura Razzolini,William F. Shughart Pdf

'This is a comprehensive set of essays on myriad facets of public choice by many of the leading contributors in the field. The coverage is excellent and the essays are terrific. I highly recommend this book for researchers and students.' – Todd Sandler, University of Texas at Dallas, US The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition brings together leading scholars in the field of political economy to introduce readers to the latest research in public choice. The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance, and to modeling and predicting the behavior of international organizations and transnational terrorism. With broad and up-to-date coverage, this second edition will appeal to politicians and policymakers, academics and researchers in public and social choice and political science as well as graduate students in economics, political science and public administration.

Author : Arye L. Hillman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107136311

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Public Finance and Public Policy by Arye L. Hillman Pdf

Using a political-economy perspective this book is an introduction to the responsibilities and limitations of government in a market economy.

Author : Georg Gottlob,Etienne Grandjean,Katrin Seyr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540488552

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Computer Science Logic by Georg Gottlob,Etienne Grandjean,Katrin Seyr Pdf

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Computer Science Logic, CSL '98, held as the Annual Conference of the European Association on Computer Science Logic in Brno, Czech Republic in August 1998. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision. Also included are three reviewed invited papers. The papers span the whole scope of computer science logic and mathematical foundations and represent the state of the art in the area.

Author : Richard TUCK,Richard Tuck
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674033894

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Free Riding by Richard TUCK,Richard Tuck Pdf

A proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisone's dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea - and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Political leadership, conflict and the prospects for constitutional peace by Anonim Pdf

Author : Diego Lanzi
Publisher : Eliva Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636485774

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Expressive Rationality and Choice by Diego Lanzi Pdf

The essays collected in this book cover a wide array of issues connected with the idea of expressive rationality. Roughly, expressive choices imply a certain level of moral, psychological and emotional involvement, a sort of expressive attachment to the situation. An expressively rational individual wants to express, exactly in that situation, what kind of a person he is, and what he values highly in life. His rationality is emergent and agency-driven, not purposive and goal-driven like in the case of instrumental rationality. In these papers, we shall investigate how emotions, values, frames or virtues can embed choice behavior. The embeddedness of choice behavior requires not only to analyze external structures of constraints, or social roles, that can shape choice problems and their resolution, but also internal ones which are elicited by emotions, inner aspirations, personal vices and personality traits. In this way, choice theory can dialogue not only with sociology and social theory, but also with psychology, virtue ethics and moral philosophy. The approach of the book is to extend Rational Choice Theory by using some concepts of category theory. Category theory focuses on the relations among objects and takes functions by themselves as the elements of interest. More precisely, any category is described by the morphisms between its objects. The term morphism comes from the ancient Greek's word morphè, i.e., form or shape, and it expresses the state of having a specified shape. The concept is widely used in several branches of scientific inquiry from biology to semiotics, linguistics or computer science. In this volume, morphisms are applied to choice theory.

Author : Alain Marciano
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441967848

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Constitutional Mythologies by Alain Marciano Pdf

Our societies obviously rest on common beliefs. These "myths" are tools that help us to develop and build common identities; they form the structure around which societies function. This does not imply that these beliefs are “true,” in the sense that they would be supported by empirical facts. In social matters, myths have undoubtedly important functions to play even if no empirical facts support them. On the other hand, and precisely because they are not discussed, myths may be problematic: they may create illusions, conserve structures that are inefficient and unable to improve the situation of citizens. This is particularly true with constitutions. Constitutions are very important for societies: a constitution is a document — even in societies based on “unwritten” constitutions — which binds citizens together, creating unity among them, and which forms the framework within which our activities take place. As Nobel Prize laureate James Buchanan used to say: constitutions contain the rules of the social game we play in our everyday life. However, constitutions are not frequently debated by citizens. This is why we end up with common beliefs about these constitutions: they are above our heads, around us. We take them, their role, function, and nature as given. The purpose of this volume to investigate and challenge common constitutional myths. Featuring contributions from prominent economists, political scientists, and legal scholars, the chapters in this volume address such myths as “constitutions are binding social contracts,” “constitutions are economic documents” and “constitutions are legal documents.” Illustrating their analyses with historical and contemporary examples from the United States, Canada, and Europe, the authors build a multi-layered approach to understanding constitutions and their implications for social and political influence.

Author : T. V. Paul,Deborah Welch Larson,William C. Wohlforth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107059276

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Status in World Politics by T. V. Paul,Deborah Welch Larson,William C. Wohlforth Pdf

A systematic study of why rising powers seek greater status in world politics and when dominant powers recognize their claims.

Author : Justin Fisher,Edward Fieldhouse,Mark N. Franklin,Rachel Gibson,Marta Cantijoch,Christopher Wlezien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317494805

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The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion by Justin Fisher,Edward Fieldhouse,Mark N. Franklin,Rachel Gibson,Marta Cantijoch,Christopher Wlezien Pdf

The study of elections, voting behavior and public opinion are arguably among the most prominent and intensively researched sub-fields within Political Science. It is an evolving sub-field, both in terms of theoretical focus and in particular, technical developments and has made a considerable impact on popular understanding of the core components of liberal democracies in terms of electoral systems and outcomes, changes in public opinion and the aggregation of interests. This handbook details the key developments and state of the art research across elections, voting behavior and the public opinion by providing both an advanced overview of each core area and engaging in debate about the relative merits of differing approaches in a comprehensive and accessible way. Bringing geographical scope and depth, with comparative chapters that draw on material from across the globe, it will be a key reference point both for advanced level students and researchers developing knowledge and producing new material in these sub-fields and beyond. The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion is an authoritative and key reference text for students, academics and researchers engaged in the study of electoral research, public opinion and voting behavior.

Author : Jens Meierhenrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139475174

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The Legacies of Law by Jens Meierhenrich Pdf

Focusing on South Africa during the period 1650–2000, this book examines the role of law in making democracy work in changing societies. The Legacies of Law sheds light on the neglected relationship between path dependence and the law. Meierhenrich argues that legal norms and institutions, even illiberal ones, have an important - and hitherto undertheorized - structuring effect on democratic outcomes. Under certain conditions, law appears to reduce uncertainty in democratization by invoking common cultural backgrounds and experiences. In instances where interacting adversaries share qua law reasonably convergent mental models, transitions from authoritarian rule are shown to be less intractable. Meierhenrich's historical analysis of the evolution of law - and its effects - in South Africa during the period 1650–2000, compared with a short study of Chile from 1830–1990, shows how, and when, legal norms and institutions serve as historical causes to both liberal and illiberal rule.