This book seeks to elucidate its subject-the governing of democratic state-by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics.

English summary: It was Anthony Downs' objective to create a model dealing with voter and government behavior.

This book explores the relationship between growth management and smart growth and affordable housing in depth.

Can the process be made more rational? Can city neighborhoods be stabilized--and older cities thus preserved? This book argues that such flows of residents are not random.

Downs asserts that these problems undermine social cohesion and economic efficiency throughout the nation, yet many Americans fail to recognize how serious they are.

This book develops a useful theory of bureaucratic decision making.

This volume contains a selection of Anthony Downs' essays, written since the 1950s, on politics and political theory.

A dozen essays by the Brookings Institute economic theorist and urban policy analyst, reproduced from their original publication between 1962 and 1994.