John Sides has a short but interesting post on 538 today looking at surprisingly strong public support for technocratic limitations on pure democracy. A few months ago I floated the idea of multiple voting as a way of overcoming, partially, the baleful effects of voter irrationality. Technocratic management would be another way to do it. [...]
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Voter Support for Limiting Voting’s Reach
Posted in Public Opinion, representation, tagged democracy, public ignorance on September 28, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Do We Want Everyone Represented Equally?
Posted in Congress, institutions, representation, tagged Congress, democracy, median voter theorem, representation on September 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Political scientist John Sides has contributed an interesting guest post to FiveThirtyEight, in which he reviews the evidence that social class influences the way Congresspeople vote. In particular, Congresspeople are unlikely to come from working-class backgrounds, and class seems to affect voting at the individual level. If Congress had the same mix of class backgrounds [...]
Interposition: Part Nine: The Hartford Convention
Posted in Congress, federalism, foreign policy, History, institutions, Law, National defense, political philosophy, representation, secession, secession, state politics on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Few in power find it convenient to notice inconsistencies in their own conduct. Alas, but President Madison was no exception. Federalism and decentralization exist precisely because free constitutions should not depend on the good graces of those in office, but on the checks necessary to harry them back under the law. Seeking the financial means [...]
State Policy Ideology in 2 Dimensions
Posted in ideologies, Political Science, representation on June 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
As many readers already know, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University just released a new study I’ve coauthored with Texas State political scientist William Ruger, Freedom in the 50 States 2011: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom. It’s the second edition of a study first published in 2009. The new edition updates and [...]
Are Americans Underrepresented?
Posted in Congress, institutions, Political Science, politics, representation, tagged Congress, electoral reform, representation on April 20, 2011 | 7 Comments »
One overlooked electoral reform to decrease the power of special interests in the U.S. political process would be to expand the size of the U.S. House quite significantly, so that legislators cater to much smaller electorates. (More radically, state partition could also be promoted to expand the size of the Senate.) Accordingly, I thought today’s [...]
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