Titlebook: American Politics in the Age of Ignorance: Why Lawmakers Choose Belief over Research; David Schultz Book 2013 David Schultz 2013 democracy

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,Introduction: If at First You Don’t Succeed…,here is little evidence supporting their likelihood of success, or worse, when social science research indicates probable failure. Instead of policy being fact-based, it is often developed in light of political myths that doom the political process to repeated enactment of failed public policies.

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States as Laboratories of Futility, replication, reproducing ideas or programs that have been fashioned or formulated elsewhere. While in some cases this replication is good, but in many others states simply adopted failed policies found elsewhere or legislate ideas premised upon political myths, generally without any evidence of their efficacy.

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,Sportsfare—Welfare for Professional Sports, development or job development that results when compared to other investments such as in education. Second, because these strategies are pursued by multiple governments, their effects cancel one another out.

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Welfare Queens, Calculative Criminals, and the Myth of ,not possess. This is especially the case when it comes to welfare recipients and individuals who commit crimes. In general, there is little evidence that people migrate to secure higher government benefits or that most individuals make rational calculative choices when deciding whether to commit crimes.

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Sending Signals: Illegal Immigrants and Teenage Sex,e to the United States, or for teenagers to engage in sexual activity. What it concludes is that there is little evidence to support the beliefs that immigrants are a financial drain on the economy or that the teaching of sex education to teenagers increases their sexual activity.

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Democracy Is the Worst Form of Government,, terms limits generally have not worked as advocates had hoped and instead of weakening the power of veteran legislators, they have strengthened the influence of lobbyists and not done much to reduce political gridlock or change politics.

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