PUBLIC CHOICE:

1- Do you feel you have input to the allocation of public goods by voting in your local community? What about at the state and federal levels? Why or why not?

2- Do you feel your preferences are heard and heeded? Why or why not?

3- The chapter discusses the notion that predicting changes in collective decision making can be achieved by focusing on the median voter. However the increases in median income have increased in recent years among individuals, but not so proportionately for families.

• What differences would we expect to see between the predictions of an economists looking at voting preferences of median individual income vs. median family inomce?