Industrialization has the potential to lead to cultural clashes and discrimination because it separates two very distinct forms of labor: factory and farm. This leads to price differentials and the ability of those in charge of the factories to only choose certain types (i.e. races) of people for the jobs available.
This is of course a subjective question, but there are probably two aspects which can contribute to being a good politician
- good education (either from a university or self-taught) about the history (both of country and of the world), economics politics and social studies
- good connection to the life of average people: being raised in a poor area, visiting poor areas more frequently: not to loose "contact with reality" and to know the citizens' actual needs.
It determines how each state, county, nation, operates
