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Didn’t say that. Much of smart politics is already smart controls theory. They just don’t need us to tell them that. A case of teaching birds to fly. You catching a ball is a simple ball_elevation_angle —> running_speed loop. But you don’t need control engineers to teach that
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If you want to uncover control loops, relevant structures will be obvious, but meanings won’t be. For eg, gerrymandering = politicians choosing voters rather than other way around, disconnecting voting as feedback loop. Mesquita analyzes that the way a control theorist would.
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Agreed (esp. re: smart/lucky practitioners doing what works w/out much analysis). Still, a more analytical look also seems worthwhile, esp. w/reasonable framework (ala BdM). Just interested in what can be learned thru modeling control loops, esp. where control is assumed w/out ?
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