The mean, median and modal voter knows next to nothing about policy or politics. Most American voters know who the president is and not much else. This is a serious problem, because when we ask voters to select leaders, they lack the basic information they need to make good choices. As a result, regardless of which party wins, we tend to get worse leaders and outcomes than we would if Americans were more informed.
A Voting System That Accounts for Ignorance
A Voting System That Accounts for Ignorance
Recent Publications
- “Equal Opportunity, Not Reparations” in the Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (2024)
- “A Bayesian Solution to Hallsson’s Puzzle”
- Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests, 2nd Edition
- “Optimizing political influence: a jury theorem with dynamic competence and dependence”
- Why not anarchism?
Recent News
- Advocacy group concerned pay-for-plasma clinics expanding to Ontario will hurt voluntary donations
- Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore, Debating Democracy (University of Zurich’s UBS Center, 2024)
- Jason Brennan “Everything Wrong with Democracy” on the Alex O’Connor Podcast (January 28, 2024)
- On the affirmative action ruling, the Supreme Court got it half right
- Is the effective altruism movement in trouble?