Abstract
Abstract Chapter 12 discusses how problems in state politics lead to state fiscal crises. Voters are largely ignorant of state and local officials and politics. As a result, they largely rely on their national-level partisan preferences to guide their voting decisions in state and local general elections. There is little competition in state elections on the issues actually facing states. Absent competition in general elections, state officials must cater to the relevant electorates and interests, whether they are unrepresentative primary election voters or lobbyists, and have little ability to resist their demands for spending or targeted tax relief by appealing to popular sentiment. Solving this problem would go a long way to preventing state and local fiscal crises.
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