less dysfunction!

[sertrel]

National Journal reports on The Six Most Dysfunctional State Governments, ranked by:

• The quality of leadership -- by the state's legislature, its current governor and, where applicable, its ousted governor.
• The whiff of criminality in the state's top political leadership.
• The severity of the state's policy challenges.
• The intensity of the media

Comments

[humanplacebo]

Alaska's position is completely reasonable.

[sertrel]

As one defender has pointed out, Alaska's position is mostly due to Palin, and the national media circus surrounding her. Arguably, the state is in better financial position than a lot of states, with lower unemployment than the national average, though there's a lot of unpredictability with the economy so dependent on commodity prices.

[poubelle]

I would stress that it's been limited to "current trouble spots" -- Louisiana is just perennially fucked up, but since that's our state's constant state, it being anything but in trouble would be abnormal.

[_way_]

You'd better believe it. New York has to maintain its "Fuck you, I do what I want" image.