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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• Part I: How Elections Work
• 2 The Idea of Electing Governments
• Why Elections?
• The Spread of Elections
• The Myth of Self-Government through Elections
• Elections as Methods of Choosing Governments
• 3 Protecting Property
• Who Can Be Elected?
• Who Can Do the Electing?
• Filtering and Refining the People’s Voice
• Super-Majoritarian Institutions
• Counter-Majoritarian Institutions
• Conquests, Reversals, and Substitutions
• 4 Jockeying for Partisan Advantage
• Voting and Electing: Opposition
• Instruments at the Disposal of Incumbents
• Competitive and Non-Competitive Elections
• 5 Conclusion: What is Inherent in Elections?
• Part II: What Elections Can and Cannot Achieve
• 6 Introduction to Part II
• 7 Rationality
• Common Interests
• Divergent Interests
• Conclusion
• 8 Representation, Accountability, and Control over Governments
• Prospective and Retrospective Control
• Control over Bureaucracy
• 9 Economic Performance
• 10 Economic and Social Equality
• Why We Can Expect Elections to Equalize Incomes
• Economic Inequality and Political Equality
• Political Inequality and Redistribution
• A Vicious Circle
• 11 Civil Peace
• Elections as a Method of Processing Conflicts
• Conditions for Peaceful Competitive Elections
• 12 Conclusions
• Elections and Democracy
• A Crisis of Democracy?
• Suggested Reading
• References
• End User License Agreement