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07-01-2022 | Obituary

Anthony Downs (1930–2021)

Author: Michael C. Munger

Published in: Social Choice and Welfare | Issue 1/2022

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One of the originators of the spatial theory of social choice has died. Anthony Downs’s dissertation thesis, written under the supervision of Kenneth Arrow at Stanford, was published as An Economic Theory of Democracy (Downs 1957). The book has been cited nearly 4,000 times in the professional literature and was cited by Bernard Grofman (2004) as one of the “Public Choice Pentateuch,” the ur-texts of the approach. (Just as an example, it has been cited hundreds of times in Social Choice and Welfare alone.) …
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Literature
Black D (1948) On the rationale of group decision-making. J Polit Econ 56:23–34CrossRef
Black D (1958) The theory of committees and elections. Cambridge University Press
Downs A (1957) An economic theory of democracy. Harper and Row
Downs A (1992) Stuck in traffic. Brookings Institution
Downs A (1993) The origins of an economic theory of democracy. In: Bernard G (ed) Information, Participation, and Choice 198–201.
Grofman B (2004) Reflections on public choice. Public Choice 118(1/2):31–51CrossRef
Hinich M, Munger M (1994) Ideology and the theory of political choice. University of Michigan PressCrossRef
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Title
Anthony Downs (1930–2021)
Author
Michael C. Munger
Publication date
07-01-2022
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Social Choice and Welfare / Issue 1/2022
Print ISSN: 0176-1714
Electronic ISSN: 1432-217X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-021-01377-0

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