FIXING CONGRESS

Jay Cost introduces the factors behind this legislative degeneration in the first of a multi-report series.

JAY COST PART II

Why Rising Powers Resist Alliances, 
An in-depth exploration of the article, "China and the Alliance Allergy of Rising Powers,"

• In the long term, dynamism is unlikely to emerge from efforts to circumvent or suppress the melee of democratic politics. Rather, advocates for innovation should direct their energy toward building balanced governance institutions—focusing on the right capacities, expertise, and incentives.

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Philip Wallach’s Why Congress 

Put the People Back in the People’s House
Kevin R. Kosar and John Maxwell Hamilton | RealClearPolitics
Policy debates in Washington need to be re-centered. This can be achieved by congressional committees, which have jurisdiction over policymaking, bringing average voters into their deliberations.
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My sense is many conservatives, and without speaking for them, those put into categories here, would disagree with this framing. There is a lot of nuance within the movement, and as @ElbridgeColby's tweet noted, views are perhaps better understood as a spectrum with some overlap. https://t.co/JV0dekxT1o

— Amanda J. Rothschild (@Rothschild_AJ) March 17, 2023

Kevin Corinth and Jeff Larrimore investigate Americans’ income growth across five generations, from the Lost Generation to Generation Z. Using a posttax, post-transfer income measure derived from the Current Population Survey, the authors find that each of the past four generations have been better off than the previous, with millennials ages 36–40 having 18 percent higher median household income than their parents did. While Corinth and Larrimore’s analysis suggests that intergenerational income growth has slowed, this is largely a product of stalled growth in working hours. As a result, this research demonstrates that intergenerational real market income growth remains robust.