How Educated are State Legislators?
Steven L. Taylor
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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The Chronicle of Higher Education both asks and answers (with maps and everything).
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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It begs the question. Are lawyers educated or just credentialed?
Specifically, are New Hampshire legislators better or worse educated than Illinois legislators? They have defined “educated” as “credentialed”. It ain’t necessarily so and I don’t see any straightforward way to make the determination.
Is the top graduate from the top New Hampshire high school more or less educated than the worst graduate of John Marshall Law School? I think that the original article is just filler. Meaningless.
Wow, all that education has really helped California.