Here’s a nice article from Scientific American’s Mind’s September edition on becoming a better voter, including parts of an interview with me on this topic.

Excerpt:

“We’ve found that having more information changes people’s policy preferences,” Brennan says. “We can specifically predict what the American public likely wouldchoose if it were better informed.” But political science studies have found that a majority of Americans are ignorant of some pretty basic political knowledge such as actual trends in crime or unemployment or whether the economy is doing well or not. You can think of casting a “bad” vote as being a bit like air pollution, he says. “If you drive an inefficient car and pollute a lot, your individual contribution isn’t that big of a deal. But if we all do that, it is.”