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5 Dec 2022, 1:48 pm by Ilya Somin
And, as extensively documented in an important recent book by political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, committed partisans often adopt positions based on whether their party is perceived as supporting them, rather than vice versa. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021).Daniel Carpenter[1] Is there anything like the petition of lore left in our republic? [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
  So too, a laser-like focus upon near-term responsiveness has led scholars to examine whether more or less democracy, or more or less equal democracy, follows from the short-run mapping of policies to voter preferences (Bartels 2008; Gilens 2012). [read post]
8 Sep 2020, 5:35 am by Brian Leiter
Of course, all sapient people already suspected this, but here it is documented quite alarmingly by Larry Bartels (of Democracy for Realists fame): Most Republicans in a January 2020 survey agreed that “the traditional American way of life is disappearing... [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 7:50 am by Daniel Shaviro
But one of them, predating Trump, is the empirical evidence adduced by the likes of Larry Bartels and Martin Gilens to the effect that the policy views of the bottom 99% have no discernible impact on most areas of public policy. [read post]
8 Jun 2020, 7:30 am by JB
The voter ignorance that is the focus of Democracy and Political Ignorance has also been identified as a serious problem by prominent liberal scholars, such as Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, in their important book Democracy for Realists. [read post]
17 Apr 2020, 9:05 pm by Jamison Chung
Achen of Princeton University and Larry M. [read post]
16 Oct 2019, 12:31 pm by Daniel Shaviro
There are well-known studies by the likes of Martin Gilens, Larry Bartels, Benjamin Page, etc., suggesting that the policy views of the 99% have startlingly little influence on actual policy choices in Washington.However, there is a different reason why the paper’s line of argument might be politically efficacious. [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 10:01 am
Indeed, several scholars have argued that the latter is extremely unlikely (see, for example, Andrew Rehfeld, David Broockman and Christopher Skovron, Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels), if not impossible. [read post]
10 Nov 2018, 1:18 pm by Ilya Somin
Prominent liberal scholars such as Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels have documented it as well. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 7:20 am by Ilya Somin
And, as extensively documented in an important recent book by political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, committed partisans often adopt positions based on whether their party is perceived as supporting them, rather than vice versa. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 5:56 am by Jim Sedor
Virginia – Dozens of Virginia Churches Have Been Donating Cash to Campaigns for Years, Despite LawThe Virginian-Pilot – Bill Bartell | Published: 2/1/2018 For years, national Christian conservative activists have argued churches and other houses of worship should be allowed to endorse or donate money to candidates. [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 7:18 am by Daniel Shaviro
An important recent political science book, decisively rebutting the misnamed (because irrational) "rational choice" model of voting, is Christopher Achen's and Larry Bartels' Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government.In such a world (i.e., our actual world), responsible governance depends less on voting, or on politicians' electoral self-interest as ostensible agents on behalf of their constituents, than on the ideology and… [read post]
1 Jun 2017, 10:43 am by Ilya Somin
Readers interested in this subject should also check out this recent Vox interview with political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, discussing their excellent recent book Democracy for Realists. [read post]
1 Jun 2017, 5:02 am by Jonathan Rauch
In the work of Ilya Somin, Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Bryan Caplan and others, the literature on flaws in voter decision-making has developed substantially over the past decade or so, to the point where the proposition that populist reforms will produce more representative politics, better governance or a happier public is borderline indefensible. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 8:09 am by Daniel Shaviro
  I rather like this quote from the newly published Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Democracy for Realists:  “'[M]ost residents of democratic countries have little interest in politics and do not follow news of public affairs beyond browsing the headlines. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 11:06 pm
Bailliet & Joanna Nicholson, Introduction Larry May & Shannon Fyfe, The legitimacy of international criminal tribunals Silje Aambø Langvatn & Theresa Squatrito, Conceptualising and measuring the legitimacy of international criminal tribunals Sergey Vasiliev, Between international criminal justice and injustice: theorising legitimacy Asad Kiyani, Legitimacy, legality, and the possibility of a pluralist international criminal law Athanasios Chouliaras, The legitimacy… [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 4:58 am by Cecilia Marcela Bailliet
Authors were selected from a variety of disciplines including law, philosophy, criminology, etc: Nobuo Hayashi, Joanna Nicholson, Larry May, Shannon Fyfe, Silje Aambø Langvtan, Theresa Squatrito, Sergey Vasiliev, Asad Kiyani, Athanasios Chouliaras, Rogier Bartels, Jakob V. [read post]
8 Nov 2016, 8:09 am by Daniel Shaviro
  I rather like this quote from the newly published Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Democracy for Realists:  “[M]ost residents of democratic countries have little interest in politics and do not follow news of public affairs beyond browsing the headlines. [read post]