{"id":92827,"date":"2026-05-24T19:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92827"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:10:40","slug":"oligarchies-run-on-mediocrities-desire-to-revive-a-stalled-career-or-obtain-a-minor-promotion-can-be-enough-to-incentivize-lower-and-midlevel-officials-to-violate-professional-obl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92827","title":{"rendered":"Oligarchies run on mediocrities: \u201cdesire to revive a stalled career or obtain a minor promotion \u2014 can be enough to incentivize lower- and midlevel officials to violate professional obligations, fundamental norms and even basic morality.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/18\/world\/americas\/actually-democracy-dies-in-hr.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/18\/world\/americas\/actually-democracy-dies-in-hr.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GOP is all like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/18\/world\/americas\/actually-democracy-dies-in-hr.html The GOP is all like this. \u201cideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92828,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92827\/revisions\/92828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}