Legal Commentary

Good Governance Is Good Politics

By Big Tent Democrat

Matt Yglesias writes:

[O]ne of the big problems we have in American government is that politicians vastly overrate the importance of “positioning” and basically meaningless gambits. What the truth about the close linkages between economic performance and political outcomes reveal is that smart politicians should try harder to govern effectively by enacting policies that lead to broadly shares prosperity. The belief that you can just kind of much around for years and then turn things around with a clever speech or single well-honed micro-initiative is what leads to a pernicious level of passivity.

Precisely

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 16, 2010 (boomark / email).