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One of the primary issues with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and authorities. Many people recognize that their votes are improbable to change the results of an election and do not start to see the point in learning much about politics. This creates a country of folks with little political knowledge and little potential to objectively examine what they can say for certain. Ilya Somin mines the depths of public ignorance in America and shows it as a significant problem for democracy. He weighs in at various potential alternatives, provocatively arguing that political ignorance is most beneficial mitigated and its own effects lessened by decentralizing and restricting authorities. This second edition of fully changes its analysis and its own implications for "voting with your feet", the bond between political ignorance and the disproportionate political affect of the rich, new proposals for increasing political knowledge, and up-to-date survey data on political ignorance from recent elections.
