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From a 1996 survey comparing the views of economists and ordinary voters, Bryan Caplan deduces several biases - anti-market, anti-foreign, pessimistic, and makework biases - to support his thesis that voters are rationally irrational, i.e., that, aware of the inconsequentiality of their votes,...
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We develop a model to understand the trade-offs faced by an elected representative in supporting an amnesty when a restrictive immigration policy is in place. We show that an amnesty is more desirable the more restricted are the occupational opportunities of undocumented immigrants and the less...
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reconciling the populist vote with voter rationality. The former has plagued sociologists and political scientists for decades. As …
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Against romanticising democracy -- Wealth: the path to freedom? -- Voters are not stupid, but we do not know much … -- Politicians are people, not angels -- For and against democratic peace -- Conclusion: Fukuyama's 'the end of history?' in social …
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The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …
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