Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Evil Gandhis and Poor Executive Function: How the World Looks if You Have Poor Impulse Control

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Cross-posted to Cognition and Evolution . Imagine that in some distant, cloudy mountain hideaway there is a city of evil Gandhis - or just...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

War Requires Material Capacity and Lack of Institutional Constraint

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In Never at War, Spencer Weart shows that in the modern era, democracies are extremely unlikely to fight other democracies , but that non-de...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Examples of Antiquity's Influence on American Founders

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Of many, here are two of recent interest: 1) Gibbon's pointing to the increasing power of the Praetorian Guard in the Roman Empire lead...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

We Might Be Careful What We Infer From These Happiness Statistics

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Here is a list of "top" countries ranked in order of what percent of interviewed people were satisfied according to the question, ...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Measuring Congress

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A benefit of easy access to computation and publication tools is that public figures can be more easily made accountable to their performanc...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Key to Happiness (and Less Violence): Multiple Status Hierarchies

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Stephen Pinker has been making the rounds talking about the decline of violence, and in his Edge talk he gets a great question from Jaron La...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Rand Paul at the Congressional Correspondents Dinner

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You gotta love the guy, he actually made a Star Trek reference. Given that he was in D.C., I'm not sure how many people in the room got...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Spot the Difference, or Political Multiple Choice

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Time for some political multiple choice. Pick A or B: "...[former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin/FBI Director Robert Mueller] said s/he...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

"Chavez Squeezes Scientific Freedom"

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To the rallying cries of "Let's be more like West Virginia !" and "Let's be more like North Korea !", we might a...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Electoral District Reform: Give Seats Directly to the Special Interests

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A post at opensecret.org described the outcome of the 2012 Congressional elective"Transportation unions lost three seats...And the mini...
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