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I said "Methinks the real problem is the media who promote questionable beancounters N'esy Pas?"

Jay MurphyReplied "They certainly play a large part in the Dog and Pony show that is politics"



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Dissatisfied with democracy? Voters like you could be part of the problem

Voters are tribal, driven by emotion and unmoved by evidence says economist Eyal Winter

This story is part of Day 6's Democracy Divided series. Each instalment takes a close look at the health of the democratic system in Canada leading up to the Oct. 21 federal election.

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In an era of attack ads and political memes, plenty of Canadian voters may be longing for more substance on the campaign trail — but we aren't necessarily wired for it.

Instead, voters tend to engage with elections the same way they engage with football games, says economist Eyal Winter.

In a study, he found that sports fans would sooner watch a match between two equally skilled teams.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, he also found they prefer watching a game when all bets are on their favourite team to win.

"Same applies to voting behaviour," said Winter, a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality. "If you have a close poll before the election, it drives people to go to vote. People are inclined more to vote when they're expecting their party to be the winner."

"This gives them some sort of feeling that they are sharing the success of the party. They have a stake in what happens."
Winter calls it "expressive voting." When casting a ballot, voters are more often driven by emotions rather than reason, and tribalism rather than self-interest.

According to Winter, voters themselves are one of the biggest flaws in our democracy — and it's only going to get worse before it gets better.


Download our podcast or click Listen above to hear the full interview with Eyal Winter.




82 Comments





Robert T. Jones
Politics has become more about smearing others, about their ethics, their beliefs, their personal lives, than the business of running a country. This has fractured society along political lines, and the political parties capitalize on that by catering to the specific groups of people who make up their base, which only serves to widen those societal fractures.

We see it every day on the CBC comment forums, with endless partisan comments about Trudeau, Scheer, and even Harper.

I would like the concept of a party leader to be abolished. I would like to turn debates and elections into factual events, where the party policy/platform is the only thing that matters. I would like the voting booth to consist of a series of questions where voters' needs and beliefs are tested and a ballot is cast based on those needs and beliefs. There is no real need for the voter to even know which party they voted for based on their answers.

This way, the election results speak to the actual needs and beliefs of Canadians, and is not based on the success of the talking head at the top of the party, nor on revenge or anger or fear


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David Raymond Amos
Methinks folks would like to hear the professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality apply his reasoning to Hillary losing to Trump N'esy Pas?

















John Montgomery
I won't vote for anyone who needs to find 'dirt' on the other candidates.


















Ian Taylor
If we were living in a democracy, two issues would have been addressed long ago: 1) Amending our family court laws that have effectively torn apart the family unit. 2) Utilizing the Bank of Canada to print our own currency. Those two issues actually affect regular, everyday citizens and the social fabric of our society. Instead, we are presented with superfluous junk to argue with each other about and vote these puppets in on. At least give us a better actor to vote for.


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David Raymond Amos
Whereas I am a whistleblower about financial crimes who has his name is on a ballot for the 7th time as an Independent with no false illusions about ever being elected need I say that I am happy to see that many folks are upset by this nonsense?















the Chinese have Discovered a Better Political System Than Democracy
democracy is a circus


Jeffrey Winterbottom


Ericsson Leaf
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Reply to @Jeffrey Winterbottom: you are simpleminded Why Democracy Doesn’t Deliver
Endless elections, unqualified leaders, uninformed voters, and short-term thinking are impeding economic growth.


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Reply to @ericsson leaf: Trust that I noticed that your insult of Mr Winterbottom went "Poof'







David Raymond Amos
Methinks the real problem is the media who promote questionable beancounters N'esy Pas?


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David Smith
Nice to see the elites blame the serfs.
Again.


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Bob Gillis
I think its more likely that economists are a bigger part of the problem.


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John Bouy
"Voters are tribal, driven by emotion and unmoved by evidence" doesn't that describe political parties also?


James Mittlefehldt