fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
>
> I don't think you should focus so much on the median voter theorem.
> The logic of median voter theorems is that politicians offer
> policies that closely resemble the median voter's desires. This assumes
> that politicians have direct influence over the policy in question.
They could have a direct influence if they wanted to. Neglecting a
situation you could affect is just as easy for voters to punish as
anything else.
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Prof. Bryan Caplan
Department of Economics George Mason University
http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"He was thinking that Prince Andrei was in error and did not see the
true light, and that he, Pierre, ought to come to his aid, to
enlighten and uplift him. But no sooner had he thought out what he
should say and how to say it than he foresaw that Prince Andrei,
with one word, a single argument, would discredit all his teachings,
and he was afraid to begin, afraid to expose to possible ridicule
what he cherished and held sacred."
Leo Tolstoy, *War and Peace*
