{"id":824,"date":"2010-02-16T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=824"},"modified":"2019-08-28T14:13:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T18:13:03","slug":"zero-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/02\/16\/zero-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy is not a zero-sum game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jamie Baker Roskie asks on the Land Use Prof Blog if there is a solution to the urban\/rural and black\/white split over how the Census Bureau should count incarcerated people. Introduced to the issue by an NPR story that (with the help of partisans in both places) sets the issue as a fight over limited resources, she asks if &#8220;some happy medium can be found&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great <a href=\"http:\/\/lawprofessors.typepad.com\/land_use\/2010\/02\/urban-rural-areas-battle-for-census-prison-populace.html\">question<\/a>, and the answer is easy:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">\nWe have to stop framing census reform as a zero-sum game of funding. It&#8217;s a democracy issue about the state constitution, and its an issue where almost everyone has something to gain from reform. Partisan and regional conflict makes for great press, but it&#8217;s not going to build a better society.<\/p>\n<p>See my <a href=\"http:\/\/lawprofessors.typepad.com\/land_use\/2010\/02\/urban-rural-areas-battle-for-census-prison-populace.html\">comment<\/a> on her post for my full explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have to stop framing census reform as a zero-sum game of funding. It&#8217;s a democracy issue about the state constitution, and its an issue where almost everyone has something to gain from reform. Partisan and regional conflict makes for great press, but it&#8217;s not going to build a better society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of","category-shorts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}