Following Their Leaders. Political Preferences and Public Policy, Hardback

Models of democratic decision-making tend to assume that voters have preferences, and that candidates conform to those preferences. In reality, voters adopt the policies of those political elites - they follow their leaders. Policies are designed by the elite and the masses have little influence over them.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Randall G. (Florida State University) Holcombe
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises
• Number of pages: 200
• Collection: Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
• Publication date: 2023
• Dimensions: 157 x 237 x 21
• Cover type: Hardback