![]() | Democracy for Realists Subjects: Voting.; Representative government and representation.; Politics and government.; Political participation.; Elections.; Democracy.; Representative government and representation; Political participation; Voting; Elections; Democracy; Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic--and what we can do about it Christopher H. Achen is the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and professor of politics at Princeton University. His books include The European Union Decides . Larry M. Bartels holds the May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His books include Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Princeton). |
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