Does Bad Government Breed Populism?
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The Effects of Higher Salary on Competence
Italy does not provide lots of incentives for politicians to run things well. When the five star movement has head office they have not done better than previous guys either in terms of policy success or their own electoral success. It tends to be you know throw them out elect me and then magic will happen Which is unlikely and has not happened yet. The story one needs to tell which strikes me is actually quite plausible when you Substantially increase the pay you get higher quality people running that ought to Bear on the quality of public services delivered by a government now.
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