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Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter

• Published By Stanford University Press
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About the Author

Ilya Somin is the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, and a professor of law at George Mason University. He is the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration and Political Freedom, Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter, and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain, and coauthor of A Conspiracy against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case.