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most voters are largely ignorant about the positions of the people for whom they vote and that the incentives for good management in the public interest are weak
'''Public choice theory''' uses the principles of [[economics]] to analyze the workings of government, particularly Western [[representative democracy]]. It finds that most voters are largely ignorant about the positions of the people for whom they vote and that the incentives for good management in the public interest are weak. [http://www.econlib.org/Library/Enc/PublicChoiceTheory.html]