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What's Left of Presidential Campaign Finance Regulation?

President Obama’s decision to forgo public financing in the 2008 general election marked the first time a candidate has done so since Congress created the system three decades ago.[1] His choice, though, reflected a predictable trend rather than an unexpected break from past experience. Candidates in the presidential primaries have increasingly ignored public money and its corresponding expenditure limits in favor of raising and spending...read more...

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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

By Bryan Caplan. Princeton University Press; 276 pages

Review by J.R. Leonard

Orthodox theories of individual behavior in politics or economics tend to fall somewhere on a one-dimensional continuum between absolute rationality and...read more...

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Proposition 8 and the Education Debate

Currently in California, heated debate after the November 4th referendum on Proposition 8 is ongoing and relentless. Proposition 8, which specif[ies] that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California¹,...read more...

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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

Proposition 8 and the Education Debate