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Hiring and Firing Public Officials: Rethinking the Purpose of Elections Buchler, Justin (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH)
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Hiring and Firing Public Officials: Rethinking the Purpose of Elections
Buchler, Justin (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH)
Conventional theories of elections hold that an election is analogous to a consumer product market. This analogy underlies decades of electoral theory, but in Hiring and Firing Public Officials, Justin Buchler contends that it does not capture the real nature of elections. As Buchler shows, an election is a mechanism by which voters hire and fire public officials. Thus, the health of democracy depends not on regular competitive elections, but on posing acredible threat to fire public officials who do not perform their jobs well. However, the purpose of that threat is to force public officials to act as faithful public servants so that they do not have to be fired. Thus, competitive elections, by most definitions, are indicative of a failure of the democraticsystem.
272 pages, black & white tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 13, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199759972 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 169 × 234 × 18 mm · 340 g |
| Language | English |
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