That’s an alternate title for my book suggested by Imaginary Politics. I think I would have stuck with The Myth of the Rational Voter, but it’s still too bad this wasn’t an option in the title contest!
That’s an alternate title for my book suggested by Imaginary Politics. I think I would have stuck with The Myth of the Rational Voter, but it’s still too bad this wasn’t an option in the title contest!
Aug 29 2007
He says The book challenges the modern orthodoxy of economics - that people are essentially the same everywhere, and with the right set of institutions, growth is inevitable - in three ways. First by showing that there were societies like medieval England where the institutional structure provided every incentive for ...
Aug 29 2007
From my former student Jeremy Horpedahl:Lists of elections decided by one vote are often circulated in the popular press and by government election officials (interestingly, often directed at children). Most of the commonly cited examples are either completely wrong or are for very small electorates (e.g. legislatures)...
Aug 29 2007
That's an alternate title for my book suggested by Imaginary Politics. I think I would have stuck with The Myth of the Rational Voter, but it's still too bad this wasn't an option in the title contest!
READER COMMENTS
aaron
Aug 29 2007 at 6:39pm
Wow! People still don’t realize that we have a republican democracy for two reasons:
1. To provide input from the populous.
2. So that representatives can respond to the issues the populous doesn’t have time to.
greenpagan
Aug 30 2007 at 12:57pm
Can’t wait for the next Constitutional Convention so we can maybe get a chance to change over to a parliamentary democracy like the rest of Western Civilization.
The “frozen-in-time” republican-democracy you good folk ballyhoo was the American Way of the Life of the slave-holders, the land thieves and the galoots.
(Of course, I’m always open to being persuaded otherwise…)
GOP Mess AmeriKKKa…
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