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26 Feb 2020 Conversations with Tyler Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)
“Because the short-run incentives — it’s those campaign ads where the person brags about how many people they convicted.”
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- 26 Feb 2020
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…Why not? Because the short-run incentives — it’s those campaign ads where the person brags about how many people they convicted. “Here’s some scary faces on TV, and let me show you how I convicted these people.” That’s the kind of emotional . . . That’s triggering that short-run hyperbolic discounting, impulsive thinking that the behavioral economists have warned us about. And that ends up having, I think, far too much influence. In the United States, other than the implied supermajority rules already in place through checks and balances, are there policy choices where we should impose new supermajority rules, like a two-thirds vote in the Senate or the House?…
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