Niskanen also released their website redesign today:
www.niskanencenter.org

We can progress across-the-board if we attend to these trade-offs, but that may mean lowering relative standards for generalizability & causal inference for hard ?s we still want to advance. We already do this implicitly, but may need to formalize these expectations.

AI-enhanced research acceleration is likely to supercharge these trade-offs, helping exhaust what can be learned from current mass public data, geographic relationships, & text & voting data, but diverting from less-tractable but key historical, elite-level, & international ?s.

They also find that the benefits of moderation & candidate quality have declined over time but not gone to zero. And effects are based on vote choice, not differential turnout.