By Popular Demand |
Contents |
Acknowledgments |
1. Introduction |
2. Exit And Public Voice In Representative Democracy |
3. Why Elections Fail To Ensure Accountability |
• | INTERESTS AND IDEOLOGY |
HOW VOTERS EVALUATE CANDIDATES |
• | RETROSPECTIVE VOTING |
• | IDEOLOGY, PARTISANSHIP, AND COGNITIVE SHORTCUTS |
• | POLITICAL CONVERSATION AS A PERSONAL SHORTCUT |
• | VOTER SOPHISTICATION AND ELECTION VISIBILITY |
• | POWERFUL INCUMBENTS AND SCARCE OPPONENTS |
• | NONVOTING, DISTRUST, AND CIVIC NEGLECT |
4. Appraising Radical And Conventional Electoral Reforms |
5. Public Expression In American Politics |
6. Glimpses Of The Deliberative Public |
7. The Citizen Panels Proposal |
8. The Political Impact Of Citizen Panels |
9. Electoral Experimentation |
Notes |
References |
Index |