TY - JOUR TT - Christopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016, 408 pages. AU - Kölemen, Aysuda PY - 2016 DA - December JF - Aurum Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi JO - ajss PB - Altınbaş University WT - DergiPark SN - 2458-9896 SP - 139 EP - 141 VL - 1 IS - 2 KW - democracy KW - elections N2 - Democracyfor Realists is anambitious project that sets its sights at nothing less than turningour conception of democracy and the enlightened, wise citizens—anideal that has ruled both the popular and academic imagination forover two centuries—upsidedown. Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels invite the readers to“think about democracy in a fundamentally different way” and makethe case that there is a large, consistent and irreconcilable gapbetween the idealized picture of enlightened voter behavior in whatthe authors term the “folk theory of democracy” and voterbehavior in actual politics. CR - Christopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016 UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/aurum/issue//289549 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/273000 ER -