[EM] Linked issues, 1-dimensional political spectrum

Michael Ossipoff mikeo2106 at msn.com
Fri Feb 23 14:49:59 PST 2007


One thing that I forgot to mention when I posted before about this: In the 
U.S. at least, the issues are strongly linked. People's opinions on them are 
strongly correlated. That's because an authoritarian is going to be 
authoritarian on everything, typically.

So a 1-dimensional issue-space isn't a bad approximation. With that 
reasonable approximation, the CW is the SU maximizer.

Mike Ossipoff





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