Dancing_Dave
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Sat Mar-12-05 12:34 AM
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44. Mebane also believes in "rational voter choice" models! |
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Which are often VERY psychologically inaccurate!
He also assumes people have access to information needed to make these rational voter choices--unfortunately, that is often untrue in America today! This easily turns "rational choice" models into a kind of ideological scam, positing a nice situation which unfortunately doesn't happen to really exist.
People like Jefferson and Adams thought that rational voter choice was indeed something to be cultivated through education and civic culture, but they did not take it as a given. To put it in modern terms, a lot of "consciousness raising" must be done.
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