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Monkey for Mayor from This Day in Esoteric Political History

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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What Happens When You Have Such a Small Turnout?

In a town of 100,000 people, the election for mayor was very close. When you have such a tiny turnout, when politics is treated as a side shower, whatever, then it just s a vacuum of sorts. And this kind of thing can happen. It's worth yawning out that this wasn't just an honorary position. This was somebody who was going to control a staff of three thousand people, of a budget of like a hundred million dollars. He could have refused to take office, but he said, well, look, i mean, i've got to take responsibility for the consequences of my own actions. The local member of parliament, is ivalent of a member of

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