andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> 1) It ignores the collective action/public goods
> problem that makes it rational for individuals to
> settle for their their second worst choices in the
> absence of an incentive structure to make it rational
> to cooperate on getting the best choice;
What it (implicitly) _recognizes, and what none of the refuations recognize is that elections are simply a stupid way to make public policy -- and that failure leads to a failure to put brain power to work figuring out how we can have democracy without elections.
Carrol