Democratic Devices and Desires

by Geoffrey Brennan, Alan Hamlin, Hamlin Alan

Book Overview

This 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521639778
• ISBN13: 9780521639774
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"