Does Bad Government Breed Populism?
Not Another Politics Podcast
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The Relationship Between Pay and Competence
On average men are in higher paying jobs and therefore You're only going to run for office if the salary is you know if the kind of the opportunity cost isn't too large. So that means that when you don't pay the mayor very well who could you know Who's willing to run it's people who earn less, he says. But how does this relate to competence? Then are we concluding the story we're telling so far is that you attract higher paid people because those happen to be the people who are more competent?, asks professor.
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