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State politics in the United States
[by] Kenneth T. Palmer.
The discussion in this chapter has focused on the somewhat technical problem of how much influence certain political and economic variables have on state public policies. Although this is presently a matter of advanced scholarly research, it is also a question of broad significance for voters and residents of the several states. When we say that politics counts in determining interstate differences in certain programs, we are saying that the people of the states are using political means—input and decision-making agencies—to accomplish goals that they have set for themselves, When we find economic factors accounting for interstate variations, on the other hand, we are really maintaining that the areas where these factors dominate are ones where program levels are more or less determined in advance, established by basic environmental conditions over which people may have little control. If the 50 states are to flourish in the 1970s as viable social instruments capable of meeting the separate needs of their populations, it seems clear that politics must count. And more than on anything else, the importance of politics will de pend on how extensively—and intensively—citizens of the states are willing to participate in state affairs.
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