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Are Americans Underrepresented?
One overlooked electoral reform to decrease the power of special interests in the U.S. political process would be to expand the size of the U.S. House quite significantly, so that legislators cater to...
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State Policy Ideology in 2 Dimensions
As many readers already know, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University just released a new study I’ve coauthored with Texas State political scientist William Ruger, Freedom in the 50 States 2011:...
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Interposition: Part Nine: The Hartford Convention
Few in power find it convenient to notice inconsistencies in their own conduct. Alas, but President Madison was no exception. Federalism and decentralization exist precisely because free constitutions...
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Do We Want Everyone Represented Equally?
Political scientist John Sides has contributed an interesting guest post to FiveThirtyEight, in which he reviews the evidence that social class influences the way Congresspeople vote. In particular,...
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Voter Support for Limiting Voting’s Reach
John Sides has a short but interesting post on 538 today looking at surprisingly strong public support for technocratic limitations on pure democracy. A few months ago I floated the idea of multiple...
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Pay Politicians More?
At Econlog, the very sharp Garett Jones makes an argument for paying politicians more: There’s some evidence that when it comes to politician quality, you get what you pay for; Besley finds that higher...
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Does Status Quo U.S. Federalism Advantage Progressives?
Is federalism for progressives? Libertarians, who are generally enthusiastic about the competitive federalism model, have tried to argue that the model provides, at the very least, a kind of modus...
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This Is What a Legislature with a Bunch of Libertarians Looks Like
Ideal Points of NH State Legislators in 2 Dimensions (Click to Expand) The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance does a Liberty Rating each year in which they analyze liberty-related roll-call votes of state...
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I've started a new blogging gig at Learn Liberty, a project of the Institute for Humane Studies. I'll be putting links to these posts here. My posts there will have the benefit of an editor, which is...
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