Titlebook: Altruism and Self-Interest in Democracies; Individual Participa Richard Jankowski Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature Americ

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Why Become Politically Informed?,cess, more generally. Much scholarly attention has been given to the first dilemma, and substantially less to the second. The focus of this chapter is on the second dilemma of democracy, that is, that it is not in the self-interest of citizens to become informed about politics. This neglect of the s

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The Postelection Phase: Public Interest Groups,ation and determining the operation of government starts after elections. The content of legislation requires the collection of information (Krehbiel, 1992). The passage of legislation requires the formation of majority coalitions. Interest groups and political parties play crucial roles in these po

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A Gene for Altruism?,of researchers have further claimed that there is a gene for altruism. A partial list includes: Sober and Wilson (1998), Peck (2004), Traulsen and Nowak (2006), Fowler et al. (2008b) and others. The claim has arisen both in biology and social science. I will focus upon Sober and Wilson’s (1998) anal

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Altruism and Redistributive Government Policies,re irrational, because the costs would exceed the expected benefits. In response, two schools of thought developed. The first, the consumption analysis, holds that individuals participate in politics because they are either pursuing their civic duty or receiving an expressive benefit. Individuals re

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An Epistemic Defense of Democracy: Democracies Do It Better?,ney to candidates, and participate in a myriad of other forms of political activities. The issue of how politically informed individuals are has arisen in the more general context of how democratic government functions. Specifically, a debate over the epistemic value of democracy has been resurrecte

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Die Arthroskopie des Kniegelenks campaign contributions and funding for political parties and interest groups, is essential. Herein, I focus on the organization of interest groups. I leave the analysis of the origins and maintenance of political parties to later work.

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Die Arthroskopie des Kniegelenksolicies. The evidence from voting, the acquisition of political information, etc., is consistent with the instrumental view of participation. I have argued that any instrumental analysis must be based only on altruistic benefits to participants (chapters 2 and 3).

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The Postelection Phase: Public Interest Groups, campaign contributions and funding for political parties and interest groups, is essential. Herein, I focus on the organization of interest groups. I leave the analysis of the origins and maintenance of political parties to later work.