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State Politics

State Politics. Lecture and Materials Week 10 : Policy October 26 , 2017. Class Agenda . Discussion of Week 10 Discussant News Articles Discussion of Erikson Discussion of Schneier Discussion of Articles. Legislative Elections and State Policy.

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State Politics

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  1. State Politics Lecture and Materials Week 10: Policy October 26, 2017

  2. Class Agenda • Discussion of Week 10Discussant News Articles • Discussion of Erikson • Discussion of Schneier • Discussion of Articles

  3. Legislative Elections and State Policy • Do election results affect policy outcomes? • Or is it more ideological? • Just because an electorate is Democratic does not make it liberal • Responsiveness to the electorate • How does taking out the South affect the numbers? • Would this be the same or different today?

  4. Political Culture and Policy • Elazar Three Cultures • Moralistic • New England settlers • Individualistic • Everything else • Traditionalistic • South and Border states • How do these translate to policy?

  5. Policy in New York • Budgets in New York must be finished annually • Cuomo likes to tout his on time budgets • Fudging the numbers and cooking the books • Budgets sometimes have to be revised mid-year • Message of necessity • The governor has tremendous power in New York • Accept or reject authority

  6. Three Men in a Room • New York’s budget is done differently than other states • Lack of conference committees • Minority parties frozen out • Role of the Comptroller • Giving governor recission authority

  7. Taxes- Where it comes from • $120 billion state budget • $85 billion from state, rest from federal government • Biggest chunk is from the personal income tax • A graduated income tax • Next biggest from sales taxes • New York residents vulnerable to ending deductability of state and local taxes

  8. Spending- Where it goes • Spending • Health • Medicaid, CHIP, ACA • Education • K-12 funded largely by property taxes with a lot of inequality, spread the wealthy? • Mayoral control of schools • Higher Education SUNY and CUNY • Should commuters pay a bigger share of the pie to cities?

  9. Schools

  10. Education Policy • School vouchers • Providing public money for children to attend private or religious schools

  11. Education by State • Better educated states tend to be in the Upper Midwest, West, and Northeastern states • Worst tend to be in parts of the South and Applachia

  12. Death Penalty • Is a state by state decision • Though there is a federal death penalty • Most actual executions have occurred in the South • States are having trouble getting death penalty drugs to administer the procedure

  13. Do local gun laws work?

  14. Kentucky Arc • Yes • This • Is • Real

  15. Amazon 2 • The race is on for the Amazon HQ2

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