Re: Question on public choice theory

[Calvin Ostrum <calvin.ostrum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

michael perelman wrote:

> Public choice theory suggests that people vote with their pocketbooks.
> How would they explain that more educated people have more liberal
> voting preferences?

Perhaps they would answer by being somewhat skeptical of your claim.
To what degree is it true? I suspect they would demand that "more
educated" be disaggregated into the various areas in which a person
could be more educated.  For the "intellectuals", they would cite
something like Robert Nozick's "Why do intellectuals oppose
capitalism" (http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n1-1.html)
and for the others, probably, they would deny the alleged relationship.

At least normal right-wingers would do this.  I don't see why right
wingers of the public-choice variety cannot also do this consistenly
with their specific ideology (once they have managed to explain in
the first place why people bother to vote at all!)