Democracy for realists: why elections do not produce responsive government

1. Democratic Ideals and Realities

2. The Elusive Mandate: Elections and the Mirage of Popular Control

3. Tumbling Down into a Democratical Republick: "Pure Democracy" and the Pitfalls of Popular Control

4. A Rational God of Vengeance and of Reward? The Logic of Retrospective Accountability

5. Blind Retrospection: Electoral Responses to Droughts, Floods, and Shark Attacks

6. Musical Chairs: Economic Voting and the Specious Present

7. A Chicken in Every Pot: Ideology and Retrospection in the Great Depression

8. The Very Basis of Reasons: Groups, Social Identities, and Political Psychology

9. Partisan Hearts and Spleens: Social Identities and Political Change

10. It Feels Like We're Thinking: The Rationalizing Voter

11. Groups and Power: Toward a Realist Theory of Democracy

Appendix: Retrospective Voting as Selection and Sanctioning.