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Packwood on Partisanship

With Bob Packwood
Bob Packwood
Date: 
September 10, 2010 - 12:15pm
Speaker(s): 
Bob Packwood, Former Oregon Senator and Founder, Sunrise Research Corporation

At their best, partisanship and the two-party system allow people with competing goals to work more easily together: when sufficiently constrained, conflict between political parties can be informative and productive. Excessive partisanship, however, can undermine effective lawmak¬ing and interfere with the Legislature's ability to func¬tion. In today's political climate, excessive partisanship too often seems the rule rather than the exception - but this was not always the case.

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