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Article: Policy and Politics in Minnesota.
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- Daedalus
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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IN A FEW GENERATIONS government in Minnesota has gone from conservative to radical to liberal to cautious to receiving leadership from a wrestler who says he stunned the world. [1] Governance in Minnesota has been distinctive and often innovative, influenced by sturdy settlers, geographic isolation, prosperity, and brilliant leaders. Lately, residents of the state, like other Americans, have grown increasingly skeptical of claims of governmental beneficence. Once smug, Minnesotans no longer see their state as immune from the array of social, racial, and environmental problems that beset the rest of the United States, and they are far from convinced that government can set ...