The Ongoing Debate Over Political Ignorance
Reply to My Critics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7276443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilya Somin (0000-0002-0241-7761, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 380-414 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-3811 • E-ISSN: 1933-8007 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08913811.2015.1139283 |
| OpenAlex | W2264003858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 35 |
The participants in this symposium raise many insightful criticisms and reservations about my book Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter. But none substantially undermine its main thesis: that rational political ignorance and rational irrationality are major problems for democracy that are best addressed by limiting and decentralizing government power. Part I of this reply addresses criticisms of my analysis of the problem of political ignorance and its causes. Part II assesses challenges to my proposed solution
Democracy · Economics · Government (linguistics · Ignorance · Irrationality · Law and economics · Limiting · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics · Rationality · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Engineering · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Philosophy · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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What Americans know about politics and why it matters
The Rational Public
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics
Private Governance
An economic theory of democracy
Democracy and Knowledge
Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government
Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory Budgeting
Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies
Hearing the Other Side
Reasons and Persons
Voter ignorance and the democratic ideal
Rational Choice and Political Irrationality in the New Millennium
Does Rational Ignorance Imply Smaller Government, or Smarter Democratic Innovation
Democracy, Voter Ignorance, and the Limits of Foot Voting
Voter Ignorance Is Not Necessarily a Problem
Political Knowledge and Right-Sizing Government
Deliberative Democracy and Political Ignorance
That Same Old Song
The Irrelevance of Economic Theory to Understanding Economic Ignorance
Why Political Ignorance Undermines the Wisdom of the Many
Democracy Despite Ignorance
Looking But Not Seeing
Uninformed Votes
Systematically Biased Beliefs about Political Influence
Voting as a Rational Choice
Economics and Emigration
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |