2012/2/22 David L Wetzell <[email protected]> > As you may know, at the beginning of this century, French and English > economics graduate students challenged the dominance of uber-mathematically > analytical approaches to Economics in what became the Post-Autistic > Economics movement. <http://www.paecon.net/HistoryPAE.htm>A lot of > their critiques apply similarly to rational choice models in political > science and might be worth pondering for electoral analytics. > > I myself consider my diffidence to jockeying for what's the best > single-winner alternative to FPTP as blissfully ignoring how joe average > voter(or habitual non-voter) is a creature of habit and won't respond to > being given umpteen more choices in the way policy-wonkish electoral > analysts would.This sort of behavioralist approach to voters is not unlike > as shown by neurologists looking into the political > brain<http://www.thepoliticalbrain.com/videos.php>. > >
I too consider my advocacy of SODA, and to a lesser extent MJ, as being strongly informed by a humanistic/cognitive view. It seems quite possible that one of us is wrong. Jameson
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