Ep. 19: Democracy and Political Ignorance (with Ilya Somin)
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 29/04/2014

The idea of democracy is that the citizens should decide how they're governed and what policies their government adopts, and they way they do this is via the ballot box. But what if the voters are too ignorant about what makes good policy—or even about the effects of bad policy—to vote well in the first place?

Ilya Somin joins Aaron and Trevor for a discussion on political ignorance, which is the idea that the majority of the electorate doesn't have enough information to make fully-informed political decisions, with the understanding that for most people this ignorance is perfectly rational.

Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and is also a regular contributor at the Volokh Conspiracy.

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