Hiring and Firing Public Officials: Rethinking the Purpose of Elections

by Justin Buchler

Book Overview

Conventional theories of elections hold that an election is analogous to a consumer product market. According to the market paradigm, voters are consumers, candidates are competing firms, and an election is a market in which voters exchange votes for policy by voting for the candidates whose policies they prefer. According to this logic, a healthy democracy requires frequent competitive elections. The market analogy underlies decades of electoral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199759979
• ISBN13: 9780199759972
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"