Degrees of control

By educating the populace, a one-party state ensures capacities in science, engineering, health care, etc

Education delivers positive outcomes at micro and macro-level. More education translates into higher earning capacity for individuals, and an educated workforce adds value to the national economy.

But it takes 12-15 years before payoffs and that is several election terms. This is one reason why democracies have problems with education policy. Politicians don’t care about such distant payoffs.

Should president-for-life political syste­ms — dictatorships in other words — invest more in education? After all, re-election is not a consideration. But dictators hate educated subjects. The more educated the citizenry, the more access they have to pernicious ideas like democracy and freedoms.

One-party systems