I get that it’s because you need to be elected etc, but why isn’t this a common practise for experts to run and be put in these positions? For example the minister of health should be something along the lines of a doctor or many years of experience in the business of the relevant health service
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A doctor knows medicine and is good at healing peoples. However a minister or secretary, etc. dont do that. They need to coordinate their department, finding majorities and compromised, defend decisions in the public, doing public communications, etc. Normally doctors dont have experience with this stuff, but you need somebody who knows politics.
For the expert works, a ministry should have internal experts and external consultants, which do the expert work. A minister should be able to take their advises, and make a good decision based on that and defend it in the public.
Bascially thats the same reason why the CEO of big companies often have “just” an MBA and not something related to what the company does. A manager with an MBA dont know how to build a car at a factory and the car builder guy dont jnow how to lead a company.
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