Three theses on Schumpeter: Response to Mackie

Political Theory

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 268-275

  Green, Jeffrey Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 77949598061     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: 15527476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591709354874     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Gerry Mackie, Schumpeter's Leadership Democracy, Political Theory 37 (2009): 2, 4, 13, 23.
2. Gerry Mackie, Schumpeter's Leadership Democracy, Political Theory 37 (2009): 44.
3. For an overview of the difficult question of how responsive leaders are to public opinion, see Paul Burstein, The Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy: A Review and Agenda Political Research Quarterly 56 (2003): 29-40; for the claim that responsiveness is on the decline as politicians increasingly engage in crafted talk, see Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro, Politicians Don't' Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
4. For the claim that responsiveness is on the decline as politicians increasingly engage in crafted talk, see Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro, Politicians Don't' Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)
5. V.O. Key, the originator of the theory, had a slightly darker view, claiming that it would be a mischievous error to assume, because a candidate wins, that a majority of the electorate shares his views on public questions, approves his past actions, or has specific expectations about his future conduct (The Responsible Electorate: Rationality in Presidential Voting, 1936-1960 [Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1966]). For a critique of retrospective voting, see Adam Przeworski, Minimalist Conception of Democracy: A Defense, in Democracy's Value, ed. Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 36-38.
6. For a critique of retrospective voting, see Adam Przeworski, Minimalist Conception of Democracy: A Defense, in Democracy's Value, ed. Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 36-38
7. For a recent discussion of standard methods of gauging ideology on a conservatism-liberalism scale, see Larry M. Bartels, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 254-57
8. For skepticism regarding the measurement and applicability of the liberal-conservative continuum-especially with regard to ordinary, unsophisticated citizens-see William Haltom, Liberal-Conservative Continua: A Comparison of Measures, Western Political Quarterly 43 (June 1990): 387-401
9. Adam J. Schiffer, I'm Not That Liberal: Explaining Conservative Democratic Alignment, Political Behavior 22 (December 2000): 293-310
10. Gerry Mackie, Democracy Defended (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
11. Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (New York: Harper, 1942), 261.
12. Philip Converse, The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics, in Ideology and Discontent, ed. David Apter (London: Free Press of Glencoe), 1964
13. John Zaller, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
14. Anthony Downs, a pioneer of the economic model of democracy, credits Schumpeter's influence: Schumpeter's profound analysis of democracy forms the inspiration and foundation of our whole thesis, and our debt and gratitude to him are great indeed (An Economic Theory of Democracy [New York: Harper, 1967], 29fn11). This credit is inappropriate because, as I am explaining here, Schumpeter's account undercuts the definition of the People as consumers with exogenous demands.
15. Gerry Mackie, Schumpeter's Leadership Democracy, Political Theory 37 (2009): 149.
16. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 242.
17. Ibid., 295.
18. See, e.g., Hilary Putnam, The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).
19. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy, 235, 249, 264-65, 269.
20. Gerry Mackie, Schumpeter's Leadership Democracy, Political Theory 37 (2009): 129.
21. Gerry Mackie, Schumpeter's Leadership Democracy, Political Theory 37 (2009): 145.