{"id":8021,"date":"2013-02-12T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8021"},"modified":"2013-02-12T08:26:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T13:26:48","slug":"the-economics-of-becoming-an-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-becoming-an-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Becoming An Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/021213_0507_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Want to be the American ambassador to France? It&#8217;s not about your skills or background. It&#8217;s about the money according to a study reported on by Brad Plumer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The American President gets to name ambassadors to countries all over the world.<\/li>\n<li>About 55 of those positions are generally reserved for appointees who were either wealthy donors to the President&#8217;s campaign or top fund-raisers.<\/li>\n<li>These individuals can get posted to stable, developed countries such as France, Japan, or Canada.<\/li>\n<li>The ambassadorship to the United Kingdom, for example, requires, on average, about $1.1 million personal donations.<\/li>\n<li>The most expensive is Austria where an ambassadorship has on average cost $1.3 million in donations.<\/li>\n<li>In fairness to the President rich countries might be getting rich ambassadors because their job consists of throwing expensive parties that the state department&#8217;s budget can&#8217;t always cover.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the findings of the paper, as well as further links to more information about the topic over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/02\/07\/want-to-be-an-ambassador-in-paris-thatll-be-1-1-million\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/02\/07\/want-to-be-an-ambassador-in-paris-thatll-be-1-1-million\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to be the American ambassador to France? It&#8217;s not about your skills or background. It&#8217;s about the money according to a study reported on by Brad Plumer: The American President gets to name ambassadors to countries all over the world. About 55 of those positions are generally reserved for appointees who were either wealthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/021213_0507_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8030,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions\/8030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}