{"id":858450,"date":"2025-06-27T18:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/when-politicians-gain-power-their-language-becomes-garbled\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T18:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:12:13","slug":"when-politicians-gain-power-their-language-becomes-garbled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/when-politicians-gain-power-their-language-becomes-garbled\/","title":{"rendered":"When politicians gain power, their language becomes garbled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature It&#8217;s well known that governing parties often lose voters over time\u2014the so-called cost of governing. But a new study from Frederik Hjorth, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, documents a lesser-known but potentially crucial side effect of being in government: politicians begin to speak less simply and understandably&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-06-politicians-gain-power-language-garbled.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Gaylene Mote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature It&#8217;s well known that governing parties often lose voters over time\u2014the so-called cost of governing. But a new study from Frederik Hjorth, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, documents a lesser-known but potentially crucial side effect of being in government: politicians begin to speak less simply and understandably&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":858451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2434,414,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicians","category-power","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}