If anyone's teaching "collective action problem" (when collective & individual incentive clash) here's your article. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html …
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These recommender algorithms are on to something, but what? Can't quite put my finger on it.pic.twitter.com/RtvRiSsvYi
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Panel study, confirms earlier empirical work on Tea Party. Also textbook rise of authoritarian/populist movement.https://twitter.com/NickRiccardi/status/704421771940896768 …
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Talk of brokered convention even if Trump plurality+Trump vote partially comes from feeling voiceless=?? Then what?
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Co-author of "The Party Decides" on why "the party" is struggling to decide on the R side. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/opinion/campaign-stops/why-cant-the-gop-stop-trump.html …pic.twitter.com/hwYZBjPfgF
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For a long time, the social science puzzle was how the parties manage to hold their base (while betraying them economically) for so long.
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"The Party Decides" (a good book!) is a study of how the elites learned to re-perpetuate their power, after 70s reforms threatened it.
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In any open(ish) system with voting, there will eventually be challenges to elite stronghold on power. But history says: elites adjust too.
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The "invisible primary" rose after the "smoke-filled backrooms" were no longer viable. You bet there will be a response to 2016, too.
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Yes, I'm surprised it's Trump but I've long argued he was viable because something like his stances was the obvious GOP base/elite fracture.
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Also the R primary calendar is front-loaded & greased for the front-runner (assumed to be who "The Party" decided.) But, this year, oops.
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Also, "The Party" may yet somehow carry Rubio over the finishing line, but after all this, I don't see how the fracture goes away quietly.
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