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JOHN DESPISES HIS ALABAMA TOWN AND DECIDES TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. HE ASKS a reporter to investigate the son of a wealthy family who’s allegedly been bragging that he got away with murder. But then someone else ends up dead, sparking a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure, and an unearthing of the mysteries of one man’s life.

https://stownpodcast.org/

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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

DEMOCRACY FOR REALISTS: WHY ELECTIONS DO NOT PRODUCE RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT

Racial politics in the 2016 Election: Chris Hayes on The Ezra Klein Show

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BKYE6JA/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o00_?ie=UTF8&psc=1

by Christopher H. Achen (Author), Larry M. Bartels (Author)

Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. They demonstrate that voters—even those who are well informed and politically engaged—mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues. They also show that voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties. When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents’ control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly.

Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government.

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Category: Bibliography

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world

Rolling Stone: Interview: Chris Hayes on the Twilight of the Elites!

Books and Podcasts

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Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

Racial politics in the 2016 Election: Chris Hayes on The Ezra Klein Show

Racial politics in the 2016 Election: Chris Hayes on The Ezra Klein Show

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BKYE6JA/ref=oh_aui_d_detailpage_o00_?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Fwd: Bill Maher Brutally Sums Up What Republicanism Has Become Under Trump

NYTimes: Living in the Trump Zone

NYTimes: The Pond-Skater Presidency

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

NYTimes: Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics. Then He Shaped an Election.