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Sort of sums things up (twitter.com)

posted 357 days ago by Kienan 357 days ago by Kienan +116 / -0

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– AntonioOfVenice 12 points 357 days ago +12 / -0

For those who don't want to watch a video, part of the evidence is a Princeton study that is also described in this BBC article.

By the way, while this article frames it as 'America' (because that's what the study is about), I've seen similar studies on Europe. The only great achievement of so called democracy is persuading us that we live in a democracy.

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– Benevolentdictator 2 points 357 days ago +2 / -0

Thanks for the link

The two professors came to this conclusion after reviewing answers to 1,779 survey questions asked between 1981 and 2002 on public policy issues. They broke the responses down by income level, and then determined how often certain income levels and organised interest groups saw their policy preferences enacted.

The 2014 study doesn't seem very convincing or empirical if it amounted to two academics reviewing old popular opinion polls, then deciding themselves if the policies were implemented.

Not that I disagree with the conclusion, I just don't see how this moves the needle.

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