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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

An economic ideology is a set of views forming the basis of an ideology on how the economy should run. It differentiates itself from economic theory in...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Democracy in Africa is measured according to various definitions of democracy by a variety of indexes, such as V-Dem Democracy indices, and Democracy...

Downs, in his 1957 book An Economic Theory of Democracy, further developed the model to explain the dynamics of party competition, which became the foundation...

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

Democracy indices are quantitative and comparative assessments of the state of democracy for different countries according to various definitions of democracy...

European-style democracy and Soviet Marxism in detail. In the 1960s and 1970s, in the countries of the Arab-Muslim East, various theories of "national brands of socialism"...