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Your pretentious sounding title smacks of spending too much time with the POR.

will.d — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:30:30 GMT

neither?

will.d — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:38:31 GMT

Given that I view personal identity as a useful fiction of folk psychology and dislike ideology itself, this probably isn't the sort of answer you're looking for. But really, what more is there to voting than picking the candidate who will implement the policies you like the best? Don't pick the candidate whose personality you "like" but the candidate whose personality you think will make them able to convince Americans of policy that you like. To me, voting has always been an impersonal, strategic decision, based on policy and a candidate's likelihood of being elected.

That's pretty nifty

will.d — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:33:15 GMT

While the size of the effect seems pretty hard to know (with instrumental variables and regression discontinuity giving pretty different estimates), its pretty convincing to me that the effect exists.

Do you know if there are any theoretical models which make this prediction? I would guess direct democracy's immunity to pork barrel corruption could be used to explain this...

Sweden!

martha — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:56:37 GMT

That is all.

Answer!

David Broockman — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:19:36 GMT

It was because in order to circumvent all the normal rules they made a friendly amendment to that bill, completely removing all its contents and putting the bailout in its place.

The same thing is being done in the Senate.