Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
by Sacho on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:50AM
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The difference is that you operate in a cooperative environment(well, most of the time) within your team. The president operates in an antagonistic environment by default - even if Congress is controlled by the same party, the two sides of government(executive/legislative) are supposed to keep each other in balance.
I otherwise agree that the measure is too simple.
Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
by zigzigzag on Thursday November 10, 2016 @02:54AM
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Yes and more specifically Washington DC, the home of the regulators, voted 92% for Hillary. So Trump needs very hard rules that aren't open to interpretation AT ALL to have any chance of them actually working.
Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
by dragonwriter on Sunday November 20, 2016 @12:25AM
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> Yes and more specifically Washington DC, the home of the regulators, voted 92% for Hillary.
Washington D.C. may be where regulators work (though some of that is outside the District), but regulators are a very small share of the population. The vote in D.C. has little to do with regulators (it has a lot more to do with race, but even saying it was solely about that would be oversimplifying.)
On top of that, "regulation count" is not a natural category, since one regulation can specify an arbitrary number of things. If you replace A) No smoking and B) no littering with C) No smoking or littering, have you changed anything substantive? You have not.
Regulation complexity, of course, is a natural category, but it's hard to measure before the fact and doesn't lend itself to easily-applied "follow for a guaranteed reduction" rules.