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Politics
Why Bother with Elections?
Adam Przeworski
New York University
What are the virtues and weaknesses of elections? Are there
limitations to what they can realistically achieve? In this deeply
informed and wide-ranging little book, world-renowned democratic
theorist Adam Przeworski offers a warts-and-all analysis of elections
and the ways in which they affect our lives.
• World-renowned democracy scholar Adam Przeworski looks at
elections past and present to offer an impressively concise and
pithy guide to their virtues and limitations
• Divided into two clear parts that explain how elections work in
practice and what they do and do not achieve
• Makes a compelling case for elections as the least bad way of
selecting our leaders
• Its historical and geographical range make it an ideal primer for
students of politics globally
Print ISBN: 978-1-5095-2659-8 • Cloth • £40.00 • €47.07 • $49.95 • 160PP /
978-1-5095-2660-4 • Paper • £12.99 • €15.28 • $14.95 • Jan 2018 • 154PP
About the Author
Adam Przeworski is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Politics and (by courtesy) of Economics at New York University.