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You could say the same for politics.
by uptown 11y ago
You could say the same for politics.
- danharaj 11y agoThat is true if you limit yourself to preserving some political structure. It is not true if you consider revolutions and radical changes to be politically legitimate. There is no ideology or system you can encode in prescriptive rules that endures forever. Capitalism(s) has had a long run, but so did feudalism(s). I pluralize because those systems have changed. What happened to feudalism in the end was that its fundamental tenets were overthrown. What remained could not be called feudalism. It remains to be seen if and how that occurs with capitalism. What can be discarded to make the incumbent institutions endure? How long will that last?
- praptak 11y agoI don't think any political entity owns the economy. Quite the opposite - campaign funding is how the economy controls politics.
- nickff 11y agoI have only seen recent studies finding that campaign spending has little impact on electoral outcomes; if you have evidence that elections can be bought, please provide it, so that I may be enlightened.[1] [1] http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUsingRepeatChallengers1994.pdf http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUsingRep...
- praptak 11y ago"I have only seen recent studies finding that campaign spending has little impact on electoral outcomes;" It's a 1994 article and the research didn't stop in 1994. There are quite a few after-1994 articles supporting either view. "if you have evidence that elections can be bought" Influenced. Here's an example one from 2004: http://karlan.yale.edu/fieldexperiments/papers/00246.pdf http://karlan.yale.edu/fieldexperiments/papers/00246.pdf TLDR: authors designed and performed some actual experiments whose outcomes support the thesis that campaign spending works - better for a challenger than for an incumbent.