{"id":381,"date":"2020-04-01T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/?p=381"},"modified":"2021-03-14T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T11:43:00","slug":"merit-based-vs-populistic-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/2020\/04\/merit-based-vs-populistic-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Merit-based vs. Populistic Government?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A hypothesis: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A merit-based government could be perceived less successful in good times because it does not give what the people \u201cwant\u201d, but protect their \u201cneeds\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas in times of crisis, the merit-based government is able to deliver what the people truly needs.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/putrawenas\/status\/1255352216531152898\/photo\/1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"707\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/merit-based.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/merit-based.jpeg 707w, https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/merit-based-300x198.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hypothesis: A merit-based government could be perceived less successful in good times because it does not give what the people \u201cwant\u201d, but protect their \u201cneeds\u201d. Whereas in times of crisis, the merit-based government is able to deliver what the people truly needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelputra.com\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}