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Category: Culture
I stumbled onto a fascinating working paper today (via the sagacious Andrew Gelman), All Together Now: Putting Congress, State Legislatures, and Individuals in a Common Ideological Space. It uses the NPAT survey of political opinions to construct an ideological scale...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:41 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Culture
The Nightmare Of Regulatory Reform: ...the SEC and the CFTC, two agencies that have fought hard to stay apart while the products they regulate grow more and more intertwined. Both Republicans and Democrats agree the two should become one, but...
Posted by Razib Khan at 12:26 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Culture
U.S. Is Finding Its Role in Business Hard to Unwind: Between financial rescue missions and the economic stimulus program, government spending accounts for a bigger share of the nation's economy -- 26 percent -- than at any time since World...
Posted by Razib Khan at 1:38 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Politics
Disgraced California lawmaker denies affairs: A pro-family values California lawmaker who resigned after being caught on tape boasting about his sexual conquests denied Thursday that he had extramarital affairs, saying "my offense was engaging in inappropriate storytelling....
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:02 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Politics
Andrew Gelman has a post up, Who are the liberal Democrats and the conservative Republicans?, which shows that conservative Republicans tend toward higher incomes, while conservative Democrats tend toward lower incomes. I decided to see if something similar was discernible...
Posted by Razib Khan at 5:55 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Politics
Palin announces resignation: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday that she was resigning her office later this month, a stunning decision that could free her to run for president more easily but also raises questions about her political standing at...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:50 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: Politics
It looks like the PirateParty will gain 1 seat in the EU parliament. This means Christian Engström will have a job and income. He's been spending the last 3 years as an activist living off his savings....
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:09 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Culture
Andrew Gelman has a post up titled Difficulties in trying to understand the views of others, responding to a Robin Hanson taxonomy outline the motivations of liberals, conservatives and libertarians. Gelman is skeptical of Hanson's glosses of each group. The...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:04 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: Culture
California, a Broke State, Reels as Voters Rebuff Leaders: Direct democracy has once again upended California -- enough so that the state may finally consider another way by overhauling its Constitution for the first time in 130 years. The problem...
Posted by Razib Khan at 8:31 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Culture
I heard on the radio several times in the past few weeks commentators refer to minority opposition to gay marriage, specifically the fact that New York and California have large numbers of blacks and Latinos who are voters. I was...
Posted by Razib Khan at 9:58 AM • 18 Comments •
