POLI 100B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rationality, Electoral Roll, Field Experiment
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Only 1 of 4 adheres to traditional models of accountability (i. e. voter holds representative directly accountable) Mc makes promises about their actions if elected at time 1 (election) Voter tries to exercise power over mc at time 2 (governing period) Common thread: getting someone to do what you want them when you can"t directly control their every action. Based on normative duty to keep promises, and potentially sanctioning in next election. Voters will make reelection decisions based on mc"s past actions. Mc"s try to anticipate preferences of future voters. More room for back and forth between voters and reps. can try to educate/manipulate views of voters going forward. In this framework, mc must be prudent about what voters will want; less clean how to judge morally. Might think that communication in stage 1 (election) becomes more important, so that mc can better anticipate what voters will want.
