An Economic Theory of Democracy is a treatise of economics written by Anthony Downs, published in 1957. The book set forth a model with precise conditions...

laid out this view in his 1957 book An Economic Theory of Democracy. According to the theory of direct democracy, on the other hand, citizens should vote...

purchasing power. Economic democracy has been proposed as a component of larger socioeconomic ideologies, as a stand-alone theory and as a variety of reform agendas...

and transportation economics. He wrote a number of books including, An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957) and Inside Bureaucracy (1967), which have...

Mutualism is an anarchist school of thought and economic theory that advocates for workers' control of the means of production, a free market made up of individual...

modernization can turn into democracy. There is academic debate over the drivers of democracy because there are theories that support economic growth as both a cause...

set of possible distributions. Among other important works are Anthony Downs's An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957) and Mancur Olson's The Logic of Collective...

Proponents of democratic peace theory argue that both electoral and republican forms of democracy are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified...

the use of decision theory (the theory of rational choice) as a set of guidelines to help understand economic and social behavior. The theory tries to...

and governments. Downs laid out this view in his 1957 book An Economic Theory of Democracy. Robert A. Dahl argues that the fundamental democratic principle...

Early examples of game theory applied to political science are provided by Anthony Downs. In his 1957 book An Economic Theory of Democracy, he applies the...

Downs in An Economic Theory of Democracy. Consider an employer attempting to choose between two candidates offering to complete a task at the cost of $10/hour...

self-management. Economic democracy – theory of democracy involving people having access to subsistence, or equity in living standards. Grassroots democracy – emphasizes...

Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist...

City Lights Books); Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, with Stephen Resnick; and Democracy at Work (Chicago: Haymarket Books)...

and Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. In 2024, Robinson, Acemoglu, and Simon Johnson were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...

Luxemburg towards an appreciation of Marx's crisis theory and efforts to formulate a theory of imperialism. Karl Marx criticised liberal democracy as not democratic...

Liberal democracy, also called Western-style democracy, or substantive democracy, is a form of government that combines the organization of a democracy with...

form of government (e.g., oligarchy, aristocracy, or dictatorship).        Theories of epistemic democracy are therefore concerned with the ability of democratic...

Anthony (1957). An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row. Ostrom, Elinor (1990). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for...

The Classical Doctrine of Democracy, Another Theory of Democracy, and The Inference. This part develops five periods of socialist thought. Before Marx...

with equal power. Deliberative democracy has a long history of practice and theory traced back to ancient times, with an increase in academic attention...

ownership. It describes the economic, political, and social theories and movements associated with the implementation of such systems. Social ownership...

Consensus democracy is the application of consensus decision-making and supermajority to the process of legislation in a democracy. It is characterized...

effect. Success of the employee-owned and operated Mondragon suggests economic benefits from workplace democracy. Workplace democracy may encourage public...

E-democracy (a blend of the terms electronic and democracy), also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy, uses information and communication...

In political science, the waves of democracy or waves of democratization are major surges of democracy that have occurred in history. Although the term...

form the basis of economic liberalism. The early theory of economic liberalism was based on the assumption that the economic actions of individuals are...

A democracy is a political system, or a system of decision-making within an institution, organization, or state, in which members have a share of power...

Democracy and economic growth and development have had a strong correlative and interactive relationship throughout history. Effects of democracy on economic...