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John Sides
My new post at 538 discusses a forthcoming paper by political scientists Joseph Uscinski and Arthur Simon. They argue that certain kinds of previous experience, including military service and tenure as the governor of a large state, are associated with “presidential greatness,” as gauged by surveys of historians. “Washington outsiders,” by contrast, fare poorly.
The post is here.
John Sides is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University. More by John Sides
