There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins-such as Rudy Giuliani or Hillary Clinton in 2008-and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate, Samuel Popkin explains the difference between them. While plenty of political insiders have [...]

Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants. This political economy view of peasant behavior stands in contrast to the model of a distinctive peasant moral economy in which the village community is pri[...]