Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Of course in contrast to Nordic empirical findings suggesting that politicians are smart and competent, Italian economists have a theoretical model saying politicians should be below average in competence & honesty. https://t.co/EpnorFSbBJ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 20, 2022 Hibernated

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Similar result from an earlier study of Swedish politicians which found they are smarter than the average person and this holds when controlling for parental socioeconomic status. Would be interesting to see this looked at for more countries. https://t.co/fnnmwbpLel — PolitiTweet.org

In contrast to prejudices about politicians, this Finnidh study find that politicians have greater verbal and arith… https://t.co/d5uUzAMEJ4

Posted July 20, 2022 Hibernated

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I found Andrew Hall’s book arguing that the low objective job quality of being a state legislator is an important driver of polarization (only fanatics want to run and marginal members don’t really mind losing) to be persuasive. https://t.co/ieUSkQrtgB — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 20, 2022 Hibernated