do voters choose bad policies?

physically

cost of voting ✅ Sweden turnout

uninfluential ✅ Myth of rational voter

solutions

intervention ✅Ferejohn

party ✅ On the side of the Angels

experts < rhetoric ✅ Quirk and Hinchliffe

preference formation

ignorance on details ✅ Gilens

based on ✅ Myth of rational voter

truth

beliefs

protest voting ✅ Bergman

Schumpeterian professionals

based on evidence

Centrist governments

Peru's division ✅ Gamarra

Hobbes' subjectivity 🖊

Constant's modern liberty (political ignorance BUT safety) 🖊

Maddison's 'control of faction' via Representation 🖊