Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A long, dark shadow over democratic politics
- 2 The doctrine of democratic irrationalism
- 3 Is democratic voting inaccurate?
- 4 The Arrow general possibility theorem
- 5 Is democracy meaningless? Arrow's condition of unrestricted domain
- 6 Is democracy meaningless? Arrow's condition of the independence of irrelevant alternatives
- 7 Strategic voting and agenda control
- 8 Multidimensional chaos
- 9 Assuming irrational actors: the Powell amendment
- 10 Assuming irrational actors: the Depew amendment
- 11 Unmanipulating the manipulation: the Wilmot Proviso
- 12 Unmanipulating the manipulation: the election of Lincoln
- 13 Antebellum politics concluded
- 14 More of Riker's cycles debunked
- 15 Other cycles debunked
- 16 New dimensions
- 17 Plebiscitarianism against democracy
- 18 Democracy resplendent
- Endnotes
- References
- Index
List of tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A long, dark shadow over democratic politics
- 2 The doctrine of democratic irrationalism
- 3 Is democratic voting inaccurate?
- 4 The Arrow general possibility theorem
- 5 Is democracy meaningless? Arrow's condition of unrestricted domain
- 6 Is democracy meaningless? Arrow's condition of the independence of irrelevant alternatives
- 7 Strategic voting and agenda control
- 8 Multidimensional chaos
- 9 Assuming irrational actors: the Powell amendment
- 10 Assuming irrational actors: the Depew amendment
- 11 Unmanipulating the manipulation: the Wilmot Proviso
- 12 Unmanipulating the manipulation: the election of Lincoln
- 13 Antebellum politics concluded
- 14 More of Riker's cycles debunked
- 15 Other cycles debunked
- 16 New dimensions
- 17 Plebiscitarianism against democracy
- 18 Democracy resplendent
- Endnotes
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Democracy Defended , pp. xii - xiiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003