Democracy for realists: why elections do not produce responsive government : with a new afterword by the authors / Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-379) and index.

List of Illustrations, p.ix -- Preface, p.xiii -- CHAPTER ONE: Democratic Ideals and Realities, p.1 -- CHAPTER TWO: The Elusive Mandate: Elections and the Mirage of Popular Control, p.21 -- CHAPTER THREE: Tumbling Down into a Democratical Republick: "Pure Democracy" and the Pitfalls of Popular Control, p.52 -- CHAPTER FOUR: A Rational God of Vengeance and of Reward? The Logic of Retrosprective Accountability, p.90 -- CHAPTER FIVE: Blind Retrospection: Electoral Resposes to Droughts, Floods, and Shark Attacks, p.116 -- CHAPTER SIX: Musical Chairs: Economic Voting and the Specious Present, p.146 -- CHAPTER SEVEN: A Chicken in Every Pot: Ideology and Retrosprection in the Great Depression, p.177 -- CHAPTER EIGHT: The Very Basis of Reasons: Groups, Social Identities, and Political Psychology, p.213 -- CHAPTER NINE: Partisan Hearts and Spleens: Social Identities and Political Change, p.232 -- CHAPTER TEN: It Feels Like We're Thinking: The Rationalizing Voter, p.267 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Groups and Power: Toward a Realist Theory of Democracy, p.297 -- APPENDIX: Retrospective Voting as Selection and Sanctioning, p.329 -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition, p.335 -- References, p.345 -- Index, p.381.