Your President Hopes You’re Stupid
Posted: November 1, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Your President Hopes You’re Stupid
Your Vote Still Doesn’t Matter
Posted: October 18, 2012 Filed under: Voting Leave a comment »http://lfb.org/today/your-vote-still-doesnt-matter/
I Won’t Vote!
Posted: October 2, 2012 Filed under: Voting Leave a comment »http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/thoughts-on-freedom-i-wont-vote/
Why We Choose Presidents Based on the Wrong Issues
Posted: October 2, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Why We Choose Presidents Based on the Wrong Issues
On Undecided Voters
Posted: October 1, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
On Undecided Voters
Shame on You, Voter! A Case for Not Voting from Jason Brennan
Posted: August 15, 2012 Filed under: Voting 1 Comment »Who needs economic freedom? After all, you can VOTE!
Posted: August 6, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Who needs economic freedom? After all, you can VOTE!
My Video Presentation on the Problem of Political Ignorance
Posted: June 20, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
My Video Presentation on the Problem of Political Ignorance
15% more Republicans than Democrats know that FDR was a Democrat?
Posted: April 23, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
15% more Republicans than Democrats know that FDR was a Democrat?
The 5-Minute Speech that Got Judge Napolitano Fired from Fox News
Posted: March 14, 2012 Filed under: Politics, Voting Leave a comment »People Aren’t Smart Enough for Democracy
Posted: March 2, 2012 Filed under: Public Choice, Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
People Aren’t Smart Enough for Democracy
The Negative Externality of Voting
Posted: October 14, 2011 Filed under: Government Failure, Voting Leave a comment »http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/10/the-negative-externality-of-voting.html
http://www.artoftheory.com/the-ethics-of-voting/
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
Posted: August 15, 2011 Filed under: Democracy, Voting Leave a comment »http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17293#fromrss
Is Jon Stewart Correct that Fox News Viewers Are “the most consistently misinformed media viewers”?
Posted: June 21, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Is Jon Stewart Correct that Fox News Viewers Are “the most consistently misinformed media viewers”?
One Teeny Bopper, One Vote
Posted: May 21, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
One Teeny Bopper, One Vote
How Not to Care About Politics
Posted: April 6, 2011 Filed under: Politics, Voting Leave a comment »http://elidourado.com/blog/how-not-to-care-about-politics/
Why Vote?
Posted: March 22, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Why Vote?
Systematically Biased Beliefs About Political Influence: A Quick Survey of the Literature
Posted: March 3, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Systematically Biased Beliefs About Political Influence: A Quick Survey of the Literature
Weather and Turn-Out
Posted: February 11, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Weather and Turn-Out
Bigger Threat to Democracy: Money or Incumbent Advantage?
Posted: November 9, 2010 Filed under: Campaign Finance, Democracy, Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Bigger Threat to Democracy: Money or Incumbent Advantage?
Flip-flopping from primaries to general elections
Posted: November 4, 2010 Filed under: Democracy, Voting Leave a comment »It’s Okay That You’re Not Voting Today
Posted: November 3, 2010 Filed under: Voting Leave a comment »http://www.cnbc.com/id/39970869
Dead state senator reelected in Long Beach| PolitiCal | Los Angeles Times
Posted: November 3, 2010 Filed under: Democracy, Uncategorized, Voting Leave a comment »
Media activity and public spending
Posted: September 20, 2010 Filed under: Corruption, Democracy, Politics, Voting Leave a comment »http://www.springerlink.com/content/h39235362l040156/
Politicians seeking reelection need voters to know what they have done for them. Thus, incentives may arise to spend more money where media coverage is higher. We present a simple model to explain the allocation of public spending across jurisdictions contingent on media activity. A politician seeking to maximize the probability of reelection will shift more money to jurisdictions where an extra dollar raises more votes because a larger share of the electorate is informed about his policy. The main prediction of the model is that media activity is higher in the core areas of media markets. This implies higher spending levels there and lower spending levels in remote jurisdictions. Empirical support for this prediction is found using United States data on county-level federal grant allocation, Designated Market Areas and the location of licensed television stations.
How facts backfire
Posted: July 14, 2010 Filed under: Democracy, Rationality, Voting Leave a comment »“In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.”
Voting
Posted: June 4, 2010 Filed under: Voting 1 Comment »http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15220#fromrss
One of the motivations for voting is that one vote can make a difference. In a presidential election, the probability that your vote is decisive is equal to the probability that your state is necessary for an electoral college win, times the probability the vote in your state is tied in that event. We computed these probabilities a week before the 2008 presidential election, using state-by-state election forecasts based on the latest polls. The states where a single vote was most likely to matter are New Mexico, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Colorado, where your vote had an approximate 1 in 10 million chance of determining the national election outcome. On average, a voter in America had a 1 in 60 million chance of being decisive in the presidential election.
Tocqueville Quotes
Posted: March 14, 2010 Filed under: Quotes, Self-Regulation, Voting Leave a comment »“There is nothing more irresistible than a tyranny which rules in the name of the people because, though it is invested with the moral power which belongs to the will of the majority, at the same time it acts with the decisiveness, alacrity and persistence of a single man.”
It will be useless to call upon those very citizens, who have become so dependent upon central government, to choose from time to time the representatives of this government; this very important but brief and rare exercise of free choice will not prevent their gradual loss of the faculty of autonomous thought, feeling, and action so that they will slowly fall below the level of humanity.”
Political Ignorance
Posted: February 13, 2010 Filed under: Democracy, Ignorance, Voting Leave a comment »http://volokh.com/2010/02/12/my-forbes-op-ed-on-political-ignorance/
Beauty and electoral success
Posted: January 20, 2010 Filed under: Democracy, Voting Leave a comment »Abstract
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3708 were Finnish). As Finland has a proportional electoral system, we are able to compare the electoral success of non-incumbent candidates representing the same party. An increase in our measure of beauty by one standard deviation is associated with an increase of 20% in the number of votes for the average non-incumbent parliamentary candidate. The relationship is unaffected by including education and occupation as control variables and withstands several other robustness checks.
Economic Competence of the Parties
Posted: January 4, 2010 Filed under: Politics, Voting Leave a comment »http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2010/01/economic-competence-of-parties.html
