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I fear the US government will be whacking just the one mole and then putting down their novelty mallet.

toomuchtodo 2y ago
The schlep never ends, it just ebbs and flows, always in constant tension. Stay engaged and involved in the political process.
- frameset 2y ago
  Princeton University study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba
  - toomuchtodo 2y ago
    Congressional Representation: Accountability from the Constituent’s Perspective Abstract: The premise that constituents hold representatives accountable for their legislative decisions undergirds political theories of democracy and legal theories of statutory interpretation. But studies of this at the individual level are rare, examine only a handful of issues, and arrive at mixed results. We provide an extensive assessment of issue accountability at the individual level. We trace the congressional roll-call votes on 44 bills across seven Congresses (2006–18), and link them to constituent’s perceptions of their representative’s votes and their evaluation of their representative. Correlational, instrumental variables, and experimental approaches all show that constituents hold representatives accountable. A onestandard deviation increase in a constituent’s perceived issue agreement with their representative can improve net approval by 35 percentage points. Congressional districts, however, are heterogeneous. Consequently, the effect of issue agreement on vote is much smaller at the district level, resolving an apparent discrepancy between micro and macro studies. Control-F: "In what follows, we uncover a picture of the electorate that, although not hyperinformed and hyperrational, is one in which constituents are sufficiently attentive that the majority can and does hold their representatives accountable for the decisions that they make on important pieces of legislation." https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/files/cces/files/AnsolabehereKuriwaki_AJPS.pdf https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/files/cces/files/AnsolabehereKu... Verification Materials: The materials required to verify the computational reproducibility of the results, procedures and analyses in this article are available on the American Journal of Political Science Dataverse within the Harvard Dataverse Network, at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QOVWMM https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QOVWMM
afiori 2y ago
They passed a law that allows the executive to ban companies with little to no evidence, I doubt that the US government will forget about this power
- falleng0d 2y ago
  And they shouldn't. China has been doing that for years and it has been very bad for the western world. This is basic game theory. How about China stop being an adversary and allow US companies to settle in their country without needing a chinese owner and having its IPs stolen?
  - afiori 2y ago
    > How about China stop being an adversary and allow US companies to settle in their country without needing a chinese owner and having its IPs stolen AFAIK china requirements are mostly about censorship and using chinese datacenters > China has been doing that for years China has been doing many things I would like the US to not start doing... Let's say that the US could find better role models

The schlep never ends, it just ebbs and flows, always in constant tension. Stay engaged and involved in the political process.

frameset 2y ago
Princeton University study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  Congressional Representation: Accountability from the Constituent’s Perspective Abstract: The premise that constituents hold representatives accountable for their legislative decisions undergirds political theories of democracy and legal theories of statutory interpretation. But studies of this at the individual level are rare, examine only a handful of issues, and arrive at mixed results. We provide an extensive assessment of issue accountability at the individual level. We trace the congressional roll-call votes on 44 bills across seven Congresses (2006–18), and link them to constituent’s perceptions of their representative’s votes and their evaluation of their representative. Correlational, instrumental variables, and experimental approaches all show that constituents hold representatives accountable. A onestandard deviation increase in a constituent’s perceived issue agreement with their representative can improve net approval by 35 percentage points. Congressional districts, however, are heterogeneous. Consequently, the effect of issue agreement on vote is much smaller at the district level, resolving an apparent discrepancy between micro and macro studies. Control-F: "In what follows, we uncover a picture of the electorate that, although not hyperinformed and hyperrational, is one in which constituents are sufficiently attentive that the majority can and does hold their representatives accountable for the decisions that they make on important pieces of legislation." https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/files/cces/files/AnsolabehereKuriwaki_AJPS.pdf https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/files/cces/files/AnsolabehereKu... Verification Materials: The materials required to verify the computational reproducibility of the results, procedures and analyses in this article are available on the American Journal of Political Science Dataverse within the Harvard Dataverse Network, at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QOVWMM https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QOVWMM

afiori 2y ago

They passed a law that allows the executive to ban companies with little to no evidence, I doubt that the US government will forget about this power

falleng0d 2y ago
And they shouldn't. China has been doing that for years and it has been very bad for the western world. This is basic game theory. How about China stop being an adversary and allow US companies to settle in their country without needing a chinese owner and having its IPs stolen?
- afiori 2y ago
  > How about China stop being an adversary and allow US companies to settle in their country without needing a chinese owner and having its IPs stolen AFAIK china requirements are mostly about censorship and using chinese datacenters > China has been doing that for years China has been doing many things I would like the US to not start doing... Let's say that the US could find better role models