Ni superior, ni inferior. Me temo que nuestros políticos son la viva imagen nuestra, de triste Nosferatus chupasangre, lo que pasa es que la prima de Riesgo tiene el cuello seco ya. Como decía Virgilio, aprendamos justicia, y a no despreciar a los dioses. Saludos
Political leaders need to hold office in order to accomplish any goal. Every leader answers to some group that retains her in power: her winning coalition. This group controls the essential features that constitute political power in the system. In democracies the winning coalition is the group of voters who elect the leader; in other systems it is the set of people who control enough other instruments of power to keep the leader in office. If the leader loses the loyalty of a sufficient number of members of the winning coalition, a challenger can remove and replace her in office. Leaders make three related sets of decisions. First, they choose a tax rate that generates government revenue and that influences how hard people work. Second, they spend the revenue raised in a manner designed to help keep incumbents in office, particularly by sustaining support among members of their winning coalition. Finally, they provide various mixes of public and private goods. Private benefits are distributed only to members of the winning coalition and diminish in value to individual coalition members as the size of the group expands. Consequently, as the size of the coalition increases, leaders are expected to shift their effort to the provision of public goods that benefit all in society. (...) Our starting point is that every political leader faces the challenge of how to hold onto his or her job. The politics behind survival in office is, we believe, the essence of politics. The desire to survive motivates the selection of policies and the allocation of benefits; it shapes the selection of political institutions and the objectives of foreign policy; it influences the very evolution of political life.We take as axiomatic that everyone in a position of authority wants to keep that authority and that it is the maneuvering to do so that is central to politics in any type of regime. (...) For us, the critical question in politics is how political institutions shape the goal of some leaders to produce peace and prosperity, while for others, institutional arrangements do not discourage war, misery, and famine.
Resulta, Claudio, que ceíamos que la Divina Providencia se había hecho política y no estamos dispuestos, en modo alguno, a ser ateos en este asunto: ha de existir un saber político capaz de hacer todas las cosas bien y que nos evite la experiencia de la frustración. Ha de existir aunque para descubrirlo tengamos que guillotinar a todos los políticos. Y en esas estamos.
es cert, no són un luxe, son una máquina de 'malbaratar' permanentment el diner públic i amb total impunitat.
ResponderEliminarYa lo he dicho otras veces por aquí: Pobre pueblo el que se cree superior a sus políticos.
ResponderEliminarNi superior, ni inferior. Me temo que nuestros políticos son la viva imagen nuestra, de triste Nosferatus chupasangre, lo que pasa es que la prima de Riesgo tiene el cuello seco ya. Como decía Virgilio, aprendamos justicia, y a no despreciar a los dioses.
ResponderEliminarSaludos
Cuantificando a Hobbes y Maquiavelo.
ResponderEliminarPolitical leaders need to hold office in order to accomplish any goal.
Every leader answers to some group that retains her in power: her
winning coalition. This group controls the essential features that constitute
political power in the system. In democracies the winning coalition is the
group of voters who elect the leader; in other systems it is the set
of people who control enough other instruments of power to keep the
leader in office. If the leader loses the loyalty of a sufficient number of
members of the winning coalition, a challenger can remove and replace
her in office.
Leaders make three related sets of decisions. First, they choose a tax
rate that generates government revenue and that influences how hard
people work. Second, they spend the revenue raised in a manner
designed to help keep incumbents in office, particularly by sustaining
support among members of their winning coalition. Finally, they provide
various mixes of public and private goods. Private benefits are distributed
only to members of the winning coalition and diminish in value to
individual coalition members as the size of the group expands. Consequently,
as the size of the coalition increases, leaders are expected to shift
their effort to the provision of public goods that benefit all in society.
(...)
Our starting point is that every political leader faces the challenge of
how to hold onto his or her job. The politics behind survival in office is,
we believe, the essence of politics. The desire to survive motivates the
selection of policies and the allocation of benefits; it shapes the selection
of political institutions and the objectives of foreign policy; it influences
the very evolution of political life.We take as axiomatic that everyone
in a position of authority wants to keep that authority and that it is the
maneuvering to do so that is central to politics in any type of regime.
(...)
For us, the critical question
in politics is how political institutions shape the goal of some leaders
to produce peace and prosperity, while for others, institutional arrangements
do not discourage war, misery, and famine.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=9962
Resulta, Claudio, que ceíamos que la Divina Providencia se había hecho política y no estamos dispuestos, en modo alguno, a ser ateos en este asunto: ha de existir un saber político capaz de hacer todas las cosas bien y que nos evite la experiencia de la frustración. Ha de existir aunque para descubrirlo tengamos que guillotinar a todos los políticos.
EliminarY en esas estamos.
no es sentirse superior Don Gregorio, es, a los hechos me remito.
ResponderEliminarpor poner un ejemplo: http://kollonades.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/rescatin-valencia.html
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