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Giving people what they want?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology At times it can feel like public opinion does not matter in U.S. politics. When the U.S. Congress or state legislatures ignore issues that have broad public support, there seems to be a glaring gap between what people want and what politicians will deliver. But in due course, public opinion does sway elected officials, according to MIT political scientist Devin Caughey. Indeed, Caughey’s work has shown that at the state level in the U.S. over the last several decades, government policies have followed public views – often incrementally, but consistently. “Over the long term, policymaking tends to be responsive to public opinion and move into alignment with what the public wants,” says Caughey. That has become more apparent due to innovative research Caughey and his colleagues have performed while using thousands of public-opinion opinion surveys from the 1930s onward.

What We Are Reading Today: Painting by Numbers by Diana Seave Greenwald

Painting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer scale of 19th-century artistic production. With new quantitative evidence for more than 500,000 works of art, Diana Seave Greenwald provides fresh insights into the 19th century, and the extent to which art historians have focused on a

Prof Emeritus at McGill University Baldev Raj Nayar Passes Away

CBO Not Competent To Assess Economics Of Minimum Wage

CBO Not Competent To Assess Economics Of Minimum Wage Post laments that a $15 minimum wage would (according to CBO) eliminate about 1.4 million jobs when fully in effect, with half of the job losers leaving the workforce. Because of the projected fall in employment, the CBO also calculates that a $15 minimum wage would increase federal budget deficits by $54 billion dollars over ten years while adding $16 billion to federal interest costs. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. This note examines the so-called data: should they be taken seriously as economics? Without in any way criticizing the competence of CBO’s

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