The Voter's Dilemma and Democratic Accountability

Mona M. (University of Missouri- Kansas City) Lyne

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010

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Presents evidence that under certain widespread structural conditions, democratic accountability falls prey to the same N-person prisoner's dilemma that plagues any other decentralized attempt to procure collective goods. Examines four prominent democracies: postwar and contemporary Brazil and pre-Chavez and contemporary Venezuela.

ISBN-13
9780271033877
ISBN-10
0271033878
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Year
2010
Publication date
2010-11-15
Pages
288
Dimensions
231x156x26
Weight
512