The institutions discussion seems to have gone off the rails. Our original disagreement was about whether governance constitutes a tough technical and economic problem. I think it does. You apparently think it doesn’t. I don’t think we’re going to make progress resolving this disagreement easily.
Our original disagreement was about whether governance constitutes a tough technical and economic problem.
No, our original disagreement was over whether partisan political activity is better than trying to systemically reform political arenas.
You apparently think it doesn’t.
No, I just think that partisan political activity is a good avenue of improving governance. I’m not making any broad claims about governance being easy or not.
I don’t think we’re going to make progress resolving this disagreement easily.
Of course not, if you want to pursue a discussion about policymaking without actually referring to legislative history.
The institutions discussion seems to have gone off the rails. Our original disagreement was about whether governance constitutes a tough technical and economic problem. I think it does. You apparently think it doesn’t. I don’t think we’re going to make progress resolving this disagreement easily.
No, our original disagreement was over whether partisan political activity is better than trying to systemically reform political arenas.
No, I just think that partisan political activity is a good avenue of improving governance. I’m not making any broad claims about governance being easy or not.
Of course not, if you want to pursue a discussion about policymaking without actually referring to legislative history.
You said: “Politics is an adversarial game, as opposed to being a tough technical or economic problem”. I was responding to that.
I’m tapping out of this discussion.