Why don’t we always vote in our own self-interest?
Why don’t we always vote in our own self-interest?
- July 19, 2018
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, via The New York Times, July 19, 2018
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In 2016, Michael Tesler, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine,
reported on the results of a survey that asked one half of those polled whether they
agreed with the statement: “Over the past few years, blacks have gotten less than
they deserve.” The other half of poll respondents were asked a nearly identical question,
substituting “average Americans” for blacks, so it read: “Over the past few years,
average Americans have gotten less than they deserve.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/opinion/voting-welfare-racism-republicans.html.
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