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Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind V: Relationships in a WEIRD Culture

You may not have realized it, but if you are reading this, you are
most likely WEIRD, that is, a member of a culture that is Western,
educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. The features of WEIRDness
can be summed up in the following sentence from Jonathan Haidt's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/03073…; target="”_blank”"><i>The

Theories of a Legislator's Role That Lie Beneath Definitions of Corruption

University of Maryland Law School professor Deborah Hellman recently
put the draft of her law review article, "<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2021188&quot; target="”_blank”">Defining
Corruption and Constitutionalizing Democracy</a>" (forth. Mich. L.
Rev (Vol. 111)), on SSRN. The core argument of her paper is that
defining legislative corruption requires a theory of the