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Jeremy Horpedahl - Why Do Baptists Need Bootleggers?

The Curious Task

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What's the Idea of Bootleggers and Baptists?

The idea of bootleggers and Baptists comes from a short article by Bruce Yandall, published in Regulation magazine. He was trying to explain why you get certain types of coalitions forming in politics. In his parable on Sunday is maybe as we'll talk about with my paper they might want to close many other days as well. And then that's how I think we can go beyond on Gandal's kind of simple little tail,. We can argue whether that was ever actually a coalition in the period he's talking about, but then this coalition we can use that model or that framework to think about lots of other political coalition coalition we might identify.

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