Friday, August 24, 2012

Impossible Political Systems: Further Adventures in Rawlsian Constitutional Design

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I am somewhat amazed, now that I think of it, that no “serious” political philosopher I know of has ever proposed an electoral system li...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Legitimacy as the Solow Residual of Political Science

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Jay Ulfelder kindly points his readers to my (recently updated!) working paper on “ The Irrelevance of Legitimacy ” in a recent post whe...
Friday, August 17, 2012

More Rawlsian Thought Experiments: An Inverse Income Voting System

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(For some unknown reason, re-reading Rawls stimulates my weird idea generator. Another politically impossible proposal here, presented as a ...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Musical Chairs, Veto Constituencies, Accountability Juries, and other Random Ideas: Further Thoughts on Randomizing Electoral Constituencies

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(Attention conservation notice: some more thoughts on this proposal , which gained a modest amount of internet attention in the last couple ...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

Rawlsian Legislatures: A Modest Proposal

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(Attention conservation notice: various harebrained schemes I cooked up preparing for a seminar on Rawls that appear to structurally mimic...
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Monday, August 06, 2012

Mixed Constitutions vs. Mixed Economies (or, Ancient and Modern Liberalisms)

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(Attention conservation notice: Inspired by a student’s comment a while back, this has languished in my drafts folder. Contains speculative ...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

New Book: A Stranger's Knowledge: Statesmanship, Philosophy, and Law in Plato's Statesman

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Due to a vaguely superstitious reluctance to make an announcement until I had the final physical copies in my hands, I neglected to announce...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

Democracy and development since 1950 in one chart

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My previous post , in one chart: (Click here for larger size). Bubbles to the right are more democratic countries, measured using the U...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

A Very Short Quantitative History of Political Regimes, Part 1.75: Democracy and Development

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(Statistician General’s warning: no significance tests or confidence intervals were harmed in the writing of this post. Appropriate model a...
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