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This should not be surprising. The senate is not set up to account for the popular will, but to resist the passions of voters. James Madison said as much in Federalist No. 63, writing that the Senate would act as “a defense to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions.” This should be offensive to small-d democrats everywhere, but aside from that, Madison’s defense of the Senate fails on its own terms. The Senate blocks not just benefits for the masses, but legislation of all varieties. As Texas...
...Scholars have applied other quantitative analysis techniques to authorship studies over the past century. For example, statisticians have been able to distinguish the writings of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers by manually calculating occurrences of a set of marker words. But dramatic writing, with its more constrained nature, has until now proven more difficult to crack. (See the 100 best novels of all TIME...
...nation’s founders clearly saw this danger. In Federalist 51, James Madison defended the virtue of divided government: “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself...
...political science have come at the expense of accessibility and even insight. What is not true is that we have to choose between quantitative and non-quantitative approaches to politics. Bolduc’s essay establishes a false binary—“These professors ditched The Federalist Papers for Excel spreadsheets years ago.” In this crude thinking, no course could (or should) have both...
...wide range of courses at Harvard alone, he would have found the intellectual content he was looking for. To take one among many of the possibilities, he might have considered my course, “The Theory and Practice of Republican Government,” where dozens of the Federalist Papers are read and studied intensively. In “Bureaucratic Politics: Military, Government, Economic and Social Organizations,” a sampling of decision theory, non-parametric statistics and stochastic modeling is combined with a healthy reading of Alfred Chandler’s The Visible Hand, the history...