October 25, 2012
Links on Voting and Voting Behavior
1. I discuss third party voting (including the myth that Nader cost Gore the election in 2000) on Al Jazeera’s The Stream. At the very end, I blame bad media on bad…
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October 05, 2012
The One-Boxer Argument for Voting
Jason Brennan’s excellent The Ethics of Voting dispatches a number of familiar arguments for a duty to vote and provides grounds for a duty to vote well or not vote…
October 04, 2012
On the Probability of Being Decisive
This post is in response to Andrew Gelman’s post here. Gelman is a very good political scientist and statistician, but I’ve notice over and over that’s he’s rather overconfident when…
October 04, 2012
Do Libertarians Think All Politicians Are Selfish and Evil?
More from Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know. There’s a stereotype that libertarians think politicians and other government agents are selfish sociopaths, out for themselves. Libertarians oppose romantic ideas about government….
October 03, 2012
The Ethics of Voting and Reason Magazine
Here’s the cover story for Reason magazine‘s November issue. It discusses my work on voting at some length. Excerpt: Many people like to be perceived as altruists, for example. Voting is one…
September 18, 2012
Why We’re Dumb about Politics
I wrote another post at the Princeton University Press blog. This summarizes the theories of rational ignorance and rational irrationality, while also explaining some findings in political psychology. http://press.princeton.edu/blog/2012/09/17/jason-brennan-on-why-were-dumb-at-politics/ Excerpt:…