Incentives matter

Business Day’s (South Africa) Steven Friedman on incentives versus capacity:

[The South African government's impressive performance during the World Cup] surely confirms the view of those of us who have insisted all along that the problem is not that the government does not how to govern. It is, rather, a political problem, which ensures that it does not face enough pressure to govern well – it has not been forced to worry enough about the citizens it is meant to serve.

I agree.