Arizona’s governor is Republican BTW and Crist is Independent.
athelas:
It’s notable that a similar trend shows up in “Bestest Country Ever” rankings too. The perennial winners: Hong Kong, Nordic countries, Singapore, and Switzerland. All are smaller than the US, and Switzerland is in addition highly federal; the cantons have all the real power. Among functioning nations, centralized power over large populations appears to robustly predict worse outcomes. Winners are either small or highly federal - either way, “more-local government” dominates.
What about Japan? Unitary system, highly efficient government. And I’ve never seen any credible argument that France (unitary system) is any worse-run than Germany (federal system).
Only this year. He was a elected as a Pub.
Cisco
October 10, 2010, 6:48pm
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Really? I’ve been hearing that a lot lately.