You live in a high trust society with an impartial and competent state, where the rule of law is a real thing and opportunities for real, lucrative corruption are relatively limited. Given the demographics of this website there is an above average chance you work in an industry or sector that is dominated by literal minded men that tend more autistic than the general population, and associate mainly with people who are basically bourgeois in their values. All of these characteristics make the level of rat bastard weaselness in your environment lower than it would otherwise be.
Nonetheless the upper echelons of the corporate world in the UK probably resemble those in the UK in that sociopaths are ten to twenty times more common in the executive class than the general population. I can't see any reason politics would not favour the same group in the same way.
For further reading see gwern's notes on psychopaths and the psychology of power.
Nonetheless the upper echelons of the corporate world in the UK probably resemble those in the UK in that sociopaths are ten to twenty times more common in the executive class than the general population. I can't see any reason politics would not favour the same group in the same way.
For further reading see gwern's notes on psychopaths and the psychology of power.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/fzy/notes_on_psychopathy/
http://lesswrong.com/lw/dtg/notes_on_the_psychology_of_power...
I have also heard good things about Ashok Rao's Psychopaths, Losers, Clueless series.