Policy Magazine
Forward Ever: Nkrumah’s Conception of Anticolonial Speed
Discussion of The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes
Toleration, Time and the Other
Economies of Conspiracy: Hidden Power and the Erosion of Democracy in Athenian Political Thought
Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures: Custom, Common Law and Civil Law
Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells on (Black) Loss: Egalitarian Witness Against Pornographic Pain
Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, and the History of Political Thought
What's the Half-Life of the Economic Vote? (About a Year and a Half)
Economic voting theory assumes that voters focus their attention on the recent past. But testing this assumption is difficult and past research remains inconclusive. I estimate voters' economic time frames using a new model that measures the economic vote and voter myopia at the same time. I show that voter myopia is real and that after around a year and a half, economic voting affects half in size. After five years, they approach zero. My findings have positive implications.