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Altruism and Self-Interest in Democracies
Individual Participation in Government
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Individuals have little incentive to vote, acquire political information or contribute campaign funds, because their vote has very little chance of affecting the outcome of an election. Jankowski offers an explanation and evidence for political participation based on the fact that most individuals are weakly altruistic.
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I N D E X
Abramowitz, Alan, 162
Abramson, Paul, 34
Achen, Christopher H., 145
Affordable Care Act (ACA), 18, 65, 121, 123, 140–1, 146–7
Aggarwal, Rajesh, 77
Ainsworth, Scott, 67–8, 72, 75, 78, 88, 169n6, 170n13
Akerlof, George, 19, 112
Aldrich, John, 3, 30
Alesina, Alberto, 111, 113–14, 128
Alford, Steve, 132–3
altruism
conservative, 7, 121–34, 156–7
definitions of, 99–100
and evolutionary biology, 95–6, 98–104, 108
and General Social Survey (GSS) data, 6, 81–4, 157
and genes, 6, 95–108, 133, 170n1
and group identity, 18, 111–19
group-specific, 128
impure, 13, 58
liberal, 7, 134
and mirror neurons, 96, 98–9, 105–8, 133, 170n3
and National Election Study (NES) data, 27–30, 52, 54–5, 63, 135
and party identification, 28–9, 86–7
paternalistic, 122, 127
Perceived Party Difference (Party Diff), 29–30, 36, 64, 82, 156
strong, 12, 27–9, 32–3, 83, 99, 111, 123, 127, 167n4
sympathy-based, 17–19, 25–6, 51, 73, 80, 112, 129
utilitarian, 18, 111–12
weak, 3–5, 12, 17–29, 32–4, 57–9, 62, 67–8, 113, 118–19, 123, 140–1, 155–6, 162–3
Alvarez, R. M., 34
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 65, 147, 158
American Medical Association (AMA), 65–...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Introduction
- One Why Participate in Politics? Beyond Self-Interest
- Two Why Vote? The Evidence
- Three Why Become Politically Informed?
- Four The Postelection Phase: Public Interest Groups
- Five A Gene for Altruism?
- Six Altruism and Redistributive Government Policies
- Seven Altruistic Conservatives: Varieties of Conservatism
- Eight An Epistemic Defense of Democracy: Democracies Do It Better?
- Nine Representative Democracy: Electoral and Postelectoral
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index