GalleryOver time, voters no longer hold former governors accountable for their economic policy successes and failures, paving the way for them to seek office once more.
The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald once famously said, “There are no second acts in American lives”, but does this apply to politicians as well? In new research using voting data for ex-governors for the last forty years, George A. Krause finds that, over time, governors’ reputations on the economic performance of their time in office declines, whether it is […]
