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The theory of statecraft explores practical politics through the strategies and manoeuvres of privileged agents, whereas the theory of democracy dwells among abstract and lofty ideals. Can these two ways of thinking somehow be reconciled and combined? Or is statecraft destined to remain the preserve of powerful elites, leaving democracy to ineffectual idealists? J. S. Maloy demonstrates that the Western tradition of statecraft, usually considered the tool of tyrants and oligarchs, has in fact been integral to the development of democratic thought. Five case studies of political debate, ranging from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth-century United States, illustrate how democratic ideas can be relevant to the real world of politics instead of reinforcing the idealistic delusions of conventional wisdom and academic theory alike. The tradition highlighted by these cases still offers resources for reconstructing our idea of popular government in a realistic spirit - skeptical, pragmatic, and relentlessly focused on power.

Democracy --- Political science --- Comparative government. --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Decision-making in political science --- Philosophy. --- Decision making. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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A prominent scholar once noted that lotteries in politics & society--to break vote ties, assign students to schools, draft people into the military, select juries--are 'at first thought absurd, & at second thought obvious.' Lotteries have been part of politics since the Greek & Roman times, & they are used widely in American politics today.

Lotteries. --- Decision making. --- Political science --- Decision-making in political science --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Gambling --- Decision making

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Models of democratic decision-making tend to assume that voters have preferences and that candidates adjust their platforms to conform with those preferences; however, the direction of causation is largely the opposite. Political elites offer policy platforms to voters, and voters adopt those policies - they follow their leaders. Following Their Leaders argues that policies are designed by the elite and the electorate has little say. Preferences for public policy tend to be anchored in a political identity associated with a candidate, party, or ideology; voters' preferences on most issues are derived from their anchor preferences. Holcombe argues that because citizens adopt the policies offered by the elite, democratic institutions are ineffective constraints on the exercise of political power. This volume explores political institutions that help control the elite who exercise political power and discusses the implications political preferences have on democracies.

Political psychology. --- Politics, Practical. --- Political science --- Decision making. --- Decision-making in political science --- Electoral politics --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Politics --- Practical politics --- Political participation --- Politics, Practical --- Psychology, Political --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Psychological aspects

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Political sociology --- 343.9 --- Power (Social sciences) --- Violence --- Political science --- -Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Criminologie --(algemeen) --- Decision-making --- -Criminologie --(algemeen) --- 343.9 Criminologie --(algemeen) --- -Violent behavior --- Administration --- Decision-making in political science

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This textbook provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject, (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgements) with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that centre on the revelation of true preferences. The literature on the subject presently consists of a great many papers. This book draws them together in common notation and points out interpretations which are often missing in specialist papers. Applications in economics, electoral politics, and ethics are discussed. The book will be used by senior undergraduate and graduate students of economics, political science and philosophy as a text book in the subject.

Social choice. --- Economics --- Political science --- Political aspects. --- Decision making. --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics - Political aspects. --- Political science - Decision making. --- Decision-making in political science --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Choice, Social --- Collective choice --- Public choice --- Choice (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Welfare economics