Exogenous Policy

2005-02-16 Thread Jason DeBacker
If we look at empirical evidence, it seems that people do not vote in a self interested way, but rather vote based on group-interest. Given this fact, is policy really endogenous? It seems that the most important characteristics in the liberal/conservative divide are age, race, gender,

Re: Exogenous Policy

2005-02-16 Thread Robert A. Book
Jason DeBacker writes: If we look at empirical evidence, it seems that people do not vote in a self interested way, but rather vote based on group-interest. Given this fact, is policy really endogenous? It seems that the most important characteristics in the liberal/conservative divide are

Re: Exogenous Policy

2005-02-16 Thread Jason DeBacker
I think you are mixing up correlation and causation here. On what basis do you say that most important characteristics in the liberal/conservative divide are age, race, gender, ...? Perhaps on the basis that we have polling data that can be broken down by these categories? As for Income,