--- Bryan D Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... Does the > median voter really want the system we have, where basketcase biological > parents can take their crying offspring away from impeccable adoptive > parents? How about the de facto efforts to avoid trans-racial > adoption? Etc.? I rarely expect the median voter to agree with me, but > this seems like a case where a comfortable majority of normal Americans > dislike the existing rules.
The median voter theroem is not supposed to explain all legislation, since public choice theory also states that there will be rent seeking and privelege seeking by concentrated interests at the expense of the general public. The special interests can in some cases be the predilections of government officials, since voters are ignorant of many laws until they happen to apply to them. The median voter explains some laws, but not all, and probably not most. Most folks are not concerned about adoption law unless they themselves are going to adopt, and it is not a high priority in elections. Fred Foldvary ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
