Anthony Downs and the Equilibrium Theory of Democracy

Anthony Downs was one of the founders of public choice theory, and An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957) remains one of the most cited texts within the field. Yet there is little historical scholarship on the development of Downs’s economic theory of democracy. Seeking to close this gap this articl...

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Main Author: Jacob Jensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Œconomia 2021-03-01
Series:Œconomia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/10467