Roger D. Congleton (George Mason): Voting By Altruists: Some Electoral Implications of Civic Virtue. Aaron Edlin (UC-Berkeley), Andrew Gelman (Columbia) and Noah Kaplan (Houston): Voting as a Rational Choice: Why and How People Vote to Improve the Well-Being of Others. The introduction to Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework by David M. Estlund. Is democracy making us stupid? Democracy is a form of mob rule that is incapable of acting in the mob’s best interests. From Swans, an article on democracy versus stability. Obama's plan for open-source democracy: For the candidate working to establish himself as the harbinger of modern era in politics, Obama's new technology plan is a big step in the right direction. How social media can help shape society: An interview with David Colarusso, co-creator of 10Questions.com, about how the site is helping empower popular discussion about the U.S. Presidential campaign. The Democratic presidential debate moderators seem more interested in eliciting mistakes from the candidates than informing the public. The campaign and the horse race: An unusually large number of serious presidential candidates bunched somewhere behind the front-runners are not getting major attention.
