Rodden on the Geography of Voting

Jonathan Rodden, political science professor at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the geography of voting. The main focus is on the tendency of urban voters around the world to vote for candidates on the left relative to suburban and rural voters. Rodden argues that this pattern is related to the geography of work and housing going back to the industrial revolution. He also discusses the implications of various voting systems such as winner-take-all vs. proportional representation, the electoral college and how political systems and voter preferences can produce unexpected outcomes.

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Rodden on the Geography of Voting is an episode from EconTalk Archives, 2012 by Library of Economics and Liberty.

This episode is 57:37 long.

This episode was published on Oct 22, 2012.

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