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| Political parties: Political parties are groups of people who share similar political views and goals. They help to organize voters, inform the public about the issues, and hold governments accountable. Political parties also provide a platform for candidates to run for office. Democracy, Political elections, Electoral systems._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Anthony Downs on Political Parties - Dictionary of Arguments
Mause I 65 Political Parties/Downs: Downs mathematically models the actions of rational voters and rational parties and in this way comes to two central insights: Rational parties primarily pursue the interest of coming to power. To this end, they organise their party programme in such a way that it appeals to as many citizens as possible.(1) Empirically, in a unimodal (one-summit) distribution of political preferences in the one-dimensional political space, this leads to the parties moving programmatically to the middle (i.e. to the summit of unimodal distribution) and thus programmatic differences gradually disappear. >Preferences, >Rationality, >Interest, >Power, >Political elections. It is rational for voters not to vote, since the cost of obtaining information or the general opportunity cost of voting with a sufficiently large electorate is higher than the probability of decisively influencing the election with one's own vote. This phenomenon has been called a paradox of voting since Downs, and part of the academic literature of the rational choice paradigm still addresses this problem today (Aldrich 1993 (2) Dowding 2005 (3); Geys 2006 (4)). 1. A. Downs, An economic theory of democracy. New York 1957; [dt. Ökonomische Theorie der Demokratie. Tübingen 1968. 2. Aldrich, John H., Rational-choice and turnout. American Journal of Political Science 37, 1993, S. 246– 278. 3. Dowding, Keith. Is it rational to vote? Five types of explanations and a suggestion. British Journal of Politics & International Relations 7 2005., S. 442– 459. 4. Geys, Benny, Rational theories of voter turnout: A review. Political Studies Review 4, 2006. , S.16– 35._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
EconDowns I Anthony Downs An economic theory of democracy New York 1957 Mause I Karsten Mause Christian Müller Klaus Schubert, Politik und Wirtschaft: Ein integratives Kompendium Wiesbaden 2018 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-20