Matt Grossmann: Governments that implement (or keep in place) policies with higher levels of support in the electorate do not do any better in subsequent elections; data across 350 elections & 166 issues internationally www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Governments that implement (or keep in place) policies with higher levels of support in the electorate do not do any better in subsequent elections; data across 350 elections & 166 issues internationally www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is opinion-policy congruence rewarded at the ballot box?www.sciencedirect.com It is well known that voters prefer parties whose policy positions align with their own. But do voters actually reward incumbents who implement polici…

Well this is depressing.

It certainly reflects our ridiculous lack of sensible gun laws.

It's been like that for decades. Only now people are inconvenienced enough to begin to notice.

So I'm not imagining it, then.

Social scientists discover the existence of capitalism....

The voting public doesn’t care about policy and policy IS governance. That’s the reason a stable, secure, and independent bureaucracy is important. You need people who can keep the lights running when the public fucks up. Cronyism leads to even the electricians becoming incompetent party hacks.

The fuck are you on about, the public absolutely cares about policy. Them not trusting government to implement it is on the government.

These are fairy tales told to children. The actual evidence destroys these ideas.

We’d like for the public to care about policy, but polling and voting patterns says they don’t. Which is honestly fair. Even in a mutual aid-based society, you are going to have specialists and experts. Expecting the people whose job it is to work out the details is a core function of society.

Sounds dumb.

It’s because people were tricked into supporting “lesser evil” instead of actually having politics and participating.

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