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The Power of the States |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--THE MEANING OF THE 2000 ELECTIONS |
| Author: Robert Heineman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 2,185 Words, 14,451 Characters |
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Political gridlock in Congress almost certainly ensures that decisions made within the various statehouses across the nation will have a critical impact on national politics. Over the past decade, both the Supreme Court and Congress have increasingly devolved important policy issues to the states. In an era with only limited initiative possible at the national level, state politics will become even more crucial to national policy. Federalism remains alive and well in the United States.
Both parties can claim some successes from the November elections at the state level. Republicans picked up the House in Vermont and Pennsylvania and the Senate in New Hampshire. Democrats, on the other hand, were less successful; basically, they must be satisfied with obtaining toeholds in two importan...
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...sition of that chamber. Moreover, continuing use of mechanisms for direct democracy within the states will focus attention on new and sometimes strange policy initiatives. The results will often be unpredictable and chaotic, but there can be little doubt as to which level of government in the federal system now has the greater capability to function as the source of policy ideas and change.
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