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Rationally Speaking #187 - Jason Weeden on "Do people vote based on self-interest?"
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:02:17
Publish Date: 2017-06-26 03:00:00
Description: What determines which policies a person votes for? Is it their personality, their upbringing, blind loyalty to their political party? Or is it self-interest -- people voting for policies that will benefit themselves and the groups they belong to? This episode features psychologist Jason Weeden, arguing that self-interest is a much bigger determinant of voter behavior than most political scientists think it is. Jason and Julia talk about why researchers disagree over this question, and what "self-interest" even means.
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