The Reproductive Life of Good and Bad Policies
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Chuck Shipan is the author of "Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't)". He is joined by Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy, a comedian and political scientist, to discuss the forces and circumstances which lead to good and bad policy proliferation from state to state.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, you know how we live in a federal system with a national government, |
| 0:20.0 | state government, and reptoids that control both through the Bilderberg group? |
| 0:24.8 | Something I've wondered about for a while is how do state policies jump from state to state? |
| 0:29.7 | By which I mean, do states all borrow each other's new policy innovations? |
| 0:34.0 | What makes them decide between bad stupid legislation and good smart legislation? |
| 0:39.0 | What makes good policies versus bad policies spread from state to state. |
| 0:44.0 | For example, stadium subsidies. |
| 0:47.6 | Now I realize sports are incredibly popular. |
| 0:50.1 | How popular? |
| 0:51.3 | Sports fans are allowed to scream at televisions and bars and clap their hands and shout things with utter impunity. |
| 0:57.0 | If I turn on C-SPAN and start screaming at Chuck Grassley or Star Trek comes on and I start shouting, |
| 1:02.8 | John Luke, Pickard. |
| 1:04.8 | John Luke, Pickard. |
| 1:07.6 | I would get punched in the face, |
| 1:10.4 | as I should. |
| 1:11.5 | That's an incredibly irritating behavior to encounter at a bar but |
| 1:14.4 | football fans are so numerous that they can act that way and not even realize how |
| 1:17.9 | weird it is because they can beat up people like me who point out the hypocrisy |
| 1:21.4 | having established that football stadium subsidies are horrible |
| 1:25.5 | public policy, they never end up being the economic engine their supporters claim. They never |
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