Engineers vs lawyers vs staffers

An interesting analysis by Manning Clifford of the former occupations of politicians in different countries.

• China – the last three presidents have been engineers and for a while all nine politburo members were engineers
• US – 50% of Congress have a law degree, as did half of all recent US Presidents. Every democratic presidential and VP candidate for 36 years had a law degree
• Australia – 40% of MPs were formerly political staffers as were 5 out of 7 recent PMs

This might help explain why China has done so well!