||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent analysis that translates well to the Trump era|By Robert Wilcox|It drags a bit at times, like in the section documenting and commenting on survey results, but overall it's an excellent analysis. The book effectively debunks the common assumption that people vote rationally and align their vote with their own personal interests, and explains why this actually makes se|From Publishers Weekly|Caplan, an associate professor of economics, believes that empirical proof of voter irrationality is the key to a realistic picture of democracy and, thus, how to approach and improve it. Focusing on how voters are systematically mistaken
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand.<...
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