Who of the following advocated economic theory of democracy ?
American economist and political scientist Anthony Downs pioneered the economic (rational-choice) theory of democracy in his classic book An Economic Theory of Democracy…
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Who of the following advocated economic theory of democracy ?
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American economist and political scientist Anthony Downs pioneered the economic (rational-choice) theory of democracy in his classic book An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957), modelling political parties as vote-maximizing entrepreneurs and citizens as rational utility-maximizing voters in an electoral marketplace.
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