Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The Dictator's Dilemma, Mao Edition

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Mao Zedong to Ho Chi Minh, June 1966: I advise you, not all of your subjects are loyal to you. Perhaps most of them are loyal but maybe a ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Great Norm Shift and the Triumph of Universal Suffrage: A Very Short Quantitative History of Political Regimes, Part 1.825

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(Continuing an occasional series on the history of political regimes . Lots of charts and graphs, and one slideshow, using the Political Ins...
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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