For the race track, see Anthony Downs (race track).
Anthony Downs
Born
(1930-11-21)November 21, 1930
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Died
October 2, 2021(2021-10-02) (aged 90)
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Academic career
Institution
Brookings Institution
Field
Public economics Political sciences
School or tradition
Public Choice school
Alma mater
Carleton College (BA) Stanford University (MA, PhD)
Influences
Joseph Schumpeter Kenneth J. Arrow
Anthony Downs (November 21, 1930 – October 2, 2021) was an American economist specializing in public policy and public administration. His research focuses included political choice theory, rent control, affordable housing, and transportation economics. He wrote a number of books including, An Economic Theory of Democracy (1957) and Inside Bureaucracy (1967), which have been major influences on the public choice school of political economy. In Downs's Law of Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion (1962), he predicted that expanding expressways could not reduce traffic congestion, since demand would increase as well, and that reducing speeds increases capacity.
He served as a senior senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., member of faculty at the University of Chicago and a visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California in San Francisco. Downs was also an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
AnthonyDowns (November 21, 1930 – October 2, 2021) was an American economist specializing in public policy and public administration. His research focuses...
Economic Theory of Democracy is a treatise of economics written by AnthonyDowns, published in 1957. The book set forth a model with precise conditions...
Available at: [2], November 2019 Downs, Anthony (1957). "An Economic Theory of Democracy." Harper. AnthonyDowns, 1957, An Economic Theory of Political...
initiate new policies. The issue attention cycle is a concept developed by AnthonyDowns (1972) where problems progress through five distinct stages. This reinforces...
triggered research on how economics can explain voting systems. In 1957 AnthonyDowns expounded upon the median voter theorem in his book An Economic Theory...
votes. AnthonyDowns suggests that ideological political parties are necessary to act as a mediating broker between individual and governments. Downs laid...
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Comprehensive Reference Guide. London: Greenwood Press. pp. 88–89. AnthonyDowns; Barbara McCann; Sahan Mukherji; Robert Burchell (2005). Sprawl Costs:...
votes. AnthonyDowns suggests that ideological political parties are necessary to act as a mediating broker between individual and governments. Downs laid...
for a set of possible distributions. Among other important works are AnthonyDowns (1957) An Economic Theory of Democracy and Mancur Olson (1965) The Logic...
which may reduce the road's capacity below normal levels. Economist AnthonyDowns argues that rush hour traffic congestion is inevitable because of the...
including philosophy (epistemology) and game theory. The term was coined by AnthonyDowns in An Economic Theory of Democracy. Consider an employer attempting...
Public choice school James M. Buchanan Gordon Tullock Randall Holcombe AnthonyDowns William A. Niskanen Bryan Caplan Law and economics Ronald Coase Aaron...
Future of American Cities By Katharine L. Bradbury, Kenneth A. Small, AnthonyDowns, p. 28. ISBN 0-8157-1053-4 Ninety-five percent of cities with populations...
J. Paseltiner, Ezra Paul, Alexander S. Vanda, "The 1984 Election as AnthonyDowns and Stanley Kelley Might Interpret It", Political Behavior, Vol. 10...
in 1876. This problem in modern public choice theory was analysed by AnthonyDowns in 1957. Alternative responses modify the postulate of egoistic rationality...
vote (or not vote) in a particular way. One such model was proposed by AnthonyDowns (1957) and is adapted by William H. Riker and Peter Ordeshook, in “A...
Kanazawa p. 975 The basic idea behind this formula was developed by AnthonyDowns in An Economic Theory of Democracy. published in 1957. The formula itself...
examples of game theory applied to political science are provided by AnthonyDowns. In his 1957 book An Economic Theory of Democracy, he applies the Hotelling...
minimal-size coalitions. The work runs contrary to a previous theory by AnthonyDowns that they try to maximize their respective votes. Riker supposes that...
Public choice school James M. Buchanan Gordon Tullock Randall Holcombe AnthonyDowns William A. Niskanen Bryan Caplan Law and economics Ronald Coase Aaron...
Public choice school James M. Buchanan Gordon Tullock Randall Holcombe AnthonyDowns William A. Niskanen Bryan Caplan Law and economics Ronald Coase Aaron...
Public choice school James M. Buchanan Gordon Tullock Randall Holcombe AnthonyDowns William A. Niskanen Bryan Caplan Law and economics Ronald Coase Aaron...
Horse Racing Benefit Fund was created to subsidize Eureka Downs, Rooks County, and AnthonyDowns (race track), funded by a portion of the tax revenue from...
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