Published February 7, 2026
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The Price of Political Change: A Cost-Benefit Framework for Policy Incentivization
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What's the maximum cost to achieve any policy change through legal democratic channels? $25B for the US, $200B globally. For high-value reforms like military-to-health reallocation, this yields ROI exceeding 400,000:1.
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Category: Academic Paper, Political Economy, Mechanism Design, Public Policy | Genre: Political Science, Economics, Public Choice, Public Policy | Target Audience: Researchers, Policy Makers, Political Scientists, Economists, Political Reform Advocates
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- Software documentation: https://cost-of-change.warondisease.org (URL)
- Software: https://github.com/mikepsinn/disease-eradication-plan (URL)
Subjects
- Political Economy
- Campaign Finance
- Lobbying
- Public Choice
- Cost-Benefit Analysis