economic theory of democracy

It looks, as many writers have said, like the beginnings of an economic theory of democracy.

Downs: An economic theory of democracy.

"An Economic Theory of Democracy."

This conception, in the form of an 'economic theory of democracy', was further developed by later writers, and notably by Downs (1957) in whose scheme of analysis there are 'basically, only two kinds of actor.

Przeworski's book is clearly influenced by economic explanations of political behaviour advanced by thinkers such as Anthony Downs (An Economic Theory of Democracy, 1957) and Mancur Olson (The Logic of Collective Action, 1971).