But I do have a naive question: Is there a median
voter for each issue, so that if there n issues, there
can be up to n median voters? Or, is there only one
median voter who satisfies the vector median as I
described above? Can such a person be proven to
exist, sort of like a voter
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fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
I think that applications of MVT are very, very sloppy. Four
criticisms:
1. You seem to assume that policy responds quite well to public
opinion. You assume that if opinion shifts, policy will quickly follow.
I believe that policy is very sticky with respect
there's
nothing rational about being ignorant towards a political system that
benefit others at the expence of oneself (or indeed benefit noone at
the expense of everyone).
It is rational to avoid doing something when the material cost to oneself is
greater than the material benefit,
Another MVT deviation:
Marijuana decriminalization
Fabio
In a message dated 8/28/02 2:02:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sure, there is a little of this. But again, I doubt this matters much.
The Supreme Court held off New Deal legislation a little bit for a
couple of years, but after 4 years it caved in completely.
This must be one of the most
--- Eric Crampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why are we assuming that instituting the demand revealing process would
get us to uniform average-cost taxation?
Is that not an integral part of the demand revealing process?
To get one's net value, we need to know the cost he will pay, and that
--- Eric Crampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But even if his expression reflects his stated value, he is still
deriving
utility from the good. Why does it matter the reason for the utility?
Because of the divergence of private and social costs inherent in the
voting act.
There will be
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
Another MVT deviation:
Marijuana decriminalization
The failure to decriminalize? 75-80% against according to Gallup. And
it hasn't really happened anywhere in the U.S. as far as I know, the
medical marijuana loophole aside. Which is incidentally a popular
fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
Another MVT deviation:
Personal bankrupcy law. I bet most voters would prefer more lenient
laws.
They are already very lenient. There has been a lot of populist
resistance to creditors' tentative efforts to lobby to mildly tighten
them.
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In a message dated 8/28/02 3:35:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Uh, how about the first income tax ever passed? It had super-majority
support in amendment form!
Congress passed the first federal income tax in 1861, without supermajority
support. If you'd asked the average Northern voter
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