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Land of Institutional Gridlock
When we have gridlock, the system is working.
—George Will, political commentator
George Will’s words might make sense with respect to refining the proper balance between power arrangements in the various branches of the national government, but they certainly don’t offer much solace in California. The institutional composition in California is tantamount to the condition of a sailboat on a windless lake—dead in the water and going nowhere fast. In this state, movement toward policy resolution deteriorates into ...
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