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American Politics In The Age Of Ignorance Why Lawmakers Choose Belief Over Research
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Book Synopsis American Politics in the Age of Ignorance: Why Lawmakers Choose Belief over Research by : D. Schultz
Download or read book American Politics in the Age of Ignorance: Why Lawmakers Choose Belief over Research written by D. Schultz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Politics in the Age of Ignoranc e looks at ten policy myths and bad ideas that governments and public officials - most often conservatives - consistently repeat and re-enact. Acting on these myths, the policies inevitably fail and thereby reinforce preconceived beliefs that government is ineffective at solving problems.
Book Synopsis American Politics in the Age of Ignorance: Why Lawmakers Choose Belief over Research by : D. Schultz
Download or read book American Politics in the Age of Ignorance: Why Lawmakers Choose Belief over Research written by D. Schultz and published by Palgrave Pivot. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Politics in the Age of Ignoranc e looks at ten policy myths and bad ideas that governments and public officials - most often conservatives - consistently repeat and re-enact. Acting on these myths, the policies inevitably fail and thereby reinforce preconceived beliefs that government is ineffective at solving problems.
Book Synopsis Democracy and Political Ignorance by : Ilya Somin
Download or read book Democracy and Political Ignorance written by Ilya Somin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. The second edition of Democracy and Political Ignorance fully updates its analysis to include new and vital discussions on the implications of the "Big Sort" for politics, the link between political ignorance and the disproportionate political influence of the wealthy, assessment of proposed new strategies for increasing political knowledge, and up-to-date survey data on political ignorance during recent elections. Ilya Somin mines the depths of the current state of ignorance in America and reveals it as a major problem for democracy. He weighs various options for solving this problem, provocatively arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. People make better decisions when they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information—and to use it wisely.
Book Synopsis Presidential Swing States by : David A Schultz
Download or read book Presidential Swing States written by David A Schultz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new and updated volume, the contributors examine the phenomena of presidential swing states in the 2016 presidential election. They explore the reasons why some states and, now counties are the focus of candidate attention, are capable of voting for either of the major candidates, and are decisive in determining who wins the presidency.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism by : Jason Brennan
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism written by Jason Brennan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the traditional Left and Right. The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism helps readers fully examine this alternative without preaching it to them, exploring the contours of libertarian (sometimes also called classical liberal) thinking on justice, institutions, interpersonal ethics, government, and political economy. The 31 chapters--all written specifically for this volume--are organized into five parts. Part I asks, what should libertarianism learn from other theories of justice, and what should defenders of other theories of justice learn from libertarianism? Part II asks, what are some of the deepest problems facing libertarian theories? Part III asks, what is the right way to think about property rights and the market? Part IV asks, how should we think about the state? Finally, part V asks, how well (or badly) can libertarianism deal with some of the major policy challenges of our day, such as immigration, trade, religion in politics, and paternalism in a free market. Among the Handbook's chapters are those from critics who write about what they believe libertarians get right as well as others from leading libertarian theorists who identify what they think libertarians get wrong. As a whole, the Handbook provides a comprehensive, clear-eyed look at what libertarianism has been and could be, and why it matters.
Download or read book Free to Move written by Ilya Somin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But it has two major shortcomings: individual voters have little chance of making a difference, and they face strong incentives to remain ignorant about the issues at stake. "Voting with your feet," however, avoids both these pitfalls and offers a wider range of choices. In Free to Move, Ilya Somin explains how broadening opportunities for foot voting can greatly enhance political liberty for millions of people around the world. People can vote with their feet through international migration, choosing where to live within a federal system, and by making decisions in the private sector. Somin addresses a variety of common objections to expanded migration rights, including claims that the "self-determination" of natives requires giving them the power to exclude migrants, and arguments that migration is likely to have harmful side effects, such as undermining political institutions, overburdening the welfare state, increasing crime and terrorism, and spreading undesirable cultural values. While these objections are usually directed at international migration, Somin shows how a consistent commitment to such theories would also justify severe restrictions on domestic freedom of movement. By making a systematic case for a more open world, Free to Move challenges conventional wisdom on both the left and the right. This revised and expanded edition addresses key new issues, including fears that migration could spread dangerous diseases, such as Covid-19, claims that immigrants might generate a political backlash that threatens democracy, and the impact of remote work.
Book Synopsis The Conservative Revolution of Antonin Scalia by : David A Schultz
Download or read book The Conservative Revolution of Antonin Scalia written by David A Schultz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many hoped or feared that Antonin Scalia’s appointment to the Supreme Court in 1986 would guarantee a conservative counter-revolution that would reverse the liberal jurisprudence of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren and which was continued to some extent under the Burger Court though the influence of Justice William Brennan. In addition, President Reagan described Scalia’s nomination as part of a project to remake the role of the Court, promote an interpretive approach of originalism, and shift authority and discretion to the States. Yet by the time of his death in 2016 it was unclear to what extent Scalia had effected the legal, institutional, or political revolutions that had been anticipated. While the Court did move to the right doctrinally, and reversed or modified many Vinson-Warren-Burger precedents, Scalia’s influence on constitutional jurisprudence turned out to be far less than it could have been, and his ability to persuade other Justices to adopt his legal views—both substantively and methodologically—was less than many mainstream media accounts recognize. Scalia’s institutional and political legacies are similarly complex: he was neither as transformative a figure as some of his allies might have hoped nor so unimportant as some of his detractors might have wished. The fact that his death and the controversy surrounding his replacement is so intense speaks to the fragile legacy that Scalia really has had on the Supreme Court after 30 years. This book will assess Scalia’s legacy in an edited volume that assembles leading legal and political science scholars who will evaluate his impact across a range of jurisprudential, institutional, and political issues.
Book Synopsis Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit by : D. Levine
Download or read book Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit written by D. Levine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathology of the Capitalist Spirit is about capital and about the economic system that bears its name. In this book, Levine argues that our pursuit of ever-more wealth in the form of capital expresses our dissatisfaction with the world we live in, with what we have and what we don't have. Capital embodies our hope for something different. Because capital embodies this hope, it has become desire's object. In his study of capitalism, Levine explores the meaning of capital as a social reality connected to fundamental human aspirations. The link between capital and the pursuit of a hoped-for state is especially important in light of the stubborn insistence on the part of its critics that capitalism exists to serve the material interests of those whose vocation is to own capital. This misunderstanding ignores what is essential about capital, which is its link not to interests but to hope, especially the hope that by accumulating capital the individual can achieve an attachment to the good. It is this hope that blocks tolerance of any notion that there is something unfair in the capitalist's acquisition of wealth and that fairness can be achieved through its redistribution to others. It is also this hope that animates the capitalist system as a whole. And in that sense, this hope is the spirit of capitalism. To develop this theme, Levine calls on the ideas and writings of major theorists involved with understanding modernity and capitalism: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Joseph Schumpeter.
Book Synopsis Teaching for Apocalypse by : Meg Gorzycki
Download or read book Teaching for Apocalypse written by Meg Gorzycki and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the coronavirus does not get us, our ignorance might. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed serious gaps in Americans' education. Did education cause the outbreak? No. Did our assumptions, false narratives about the world, and our willingness to blindly accept whatever our partisan poohbahs said contribute to our woes? Perhaps. Could education be improved so we can better understand the world, nature, public health, economics, and our own government? Absolutely. During the pandemic, thousands of teachers flocked to the silicon sanctuary as shelter-in-place mandates forced schools and universities into the digital classroom. Instructors urgently wanted to know which boxes to click in their learning management systems. The "how to" literature proliferated, and much of it walked a fine line between reasonable adjustments and outright abdication of high standards of academic achievement and intellectual development. A case is made here that education was in trouble long before COVID-19 appeared, and that if we do not make substantial reforms in our schools and colleges--whether online or not--we will be at the mercy of our own ignorance, as the problems of the twenty-first century crash into our lives.
Book Synopsis Russia and Latin America by : M. Astrada
Download or read book Russia and Latin America written by M. Astrada and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, extensive interconnected global processes provide non-state actors with a degree of agency that a 'System of States' paradigm cannot account for alone. Using Russia-Latin America relations as a case study and applying a Complex Adaptive Systems perspective, this work explores alternative international mechanisms of order and organization.
Book Synopsis Modernism’s Second Act: A Cultural Narrative by : I. Nadel
Download or read book Modernism’s Second Act: A Cultural Narrative written by I. Nadel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European modernism underwent a massive change from 1930 to 1960, as war altered the cultural landscape. This account of artists and writers in France and England explores how modernism survived under authoritarianism, whether Fascism, National Socialism, or Stalinism, and how these artists endured by balancing complicity and resistance.
Book Synopsis The Future of Foreign Aid by : A. Sumner
Download or read book The Future of Foreign Aid written by A. Sumner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumner and Mallett review the literature on aid in light of shifts in the aid system and the increasing concentration of the world's poor in middle-income countries. As a consequence, they propose a series of practical, policy relevant options for future development cooperation, with the aim of provoking discussion and informing policy.
Book Synopsis Meritocratic Education and Social Worthlessness by : Khen Lampert
Download or read book Meritocratic Education and Social Worthlessness written by Khen Lampert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the socio-cultural role of achievement within education, arguing that the increasingly global demand for measurable standards of academic achievement is an expression of political ideology and the aggressive competitive reality of a neo-capitalist schooling system, resulting in many students feeling socially worthless.
Download or read book The Grasping Hand written by Ilya Somin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 23, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in the Fort Trumbull area in order to promote ?economic development” by transferring them to a new private owner. The use of eminent domain to take private property for public works is generally considered a permissible ?public use” under the Fifth Amendment. In New London, however, the land was condemned to pursue private economic development. When the Supreme Court upheld these takings in Kelo v. City of New London it empowered the grasping hand of the state and enfeebled the invisible hand of the market. In this detailed analysis of one of the most contentious Supreme Court cases in modern times, Ilya Somin argues that Kelo represents a serious?and dangerous?error. Not only are economic development and closely related blight condemnations unconstitutional under both originalist and most ?living constitution” theories of legal interpretation, they also tend to victimize the poor and the politically weak, and to destroy more economic value than they create. Kelo exemplifies these patterns: the neighbors who chose to fight their evictions had little political power, while the influential Pfizer corporation played an important role in persuading officials to proceed with the project. In the end, the poorly conceived development plan failed: the condemned land lies empty to this day, occupied only by feral cats. A notably unpopular verdict, Kelo triggered an unprecedented political backlash, with forty-five states passing new laws intended to limit the use of eminent domain. But many of the new state laws turned out to impose few or no genuine constraints on the government's power to condemn property. The Kelo backlash led to significant progress, but not nearly as much as it would first appear. Despite its outcome, the closely divided 5?4 ruling in Kelo shattered what many believed to be a consensus that virtually any condemnation qualifies as a public use under the Fifth Amendment. It also showed that there is widespread opposition to economic development takings. With controversy over this issue sure to continue, The Grasping Hand offers a thorough analysis of the case alongside a broader history of the dispute over the meaning of public use and the use of eminent domain, and an evaluation of options for reform.
Book Synopsis Olympic Ceremonialism and The Performance of National Character by : R. Tzanelli
Download or read book Olympic Ceremonialism and The Performance of National Character written by R. Tzanelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. The ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel and created a tornadóros: an ideal form of 'human' that manipulates audiovisual narratives of culture and identity for global audiences.
Book Synopsis A Century of American Economic Review by : B. Torgler
Download or read book A Century of American Economic Review written by B. Torgler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By using information collected from numerous American Economic Review publications from the last 100 years, Torgler and Piatti examine the top publishing institutions to determine their most renowned AER papers based on citation success.
Book Synopsis College Student Voices on Educational Reform by : K. Burke
Download or read book College Student Voices on Educational Reform written by K. Burke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text critically addresses, through college student voices, the American school reform movement in its rhetoric, policy, and practice. It demonstrates how university courses can be designed to treat students as engaged citizens and contextualizes students' voices in the private university and the public sphere.
