Grist: When pondering the failure of a big legislative initiative like cap-and-trade - and oh, there`s been so much pondering! - there are two basic perspectives one can take. First, you can think about how a campaign could be improved so that next time the initiative can clear the bar. That`s mostly what my recent post-cap-and-trade piece (and the Theda Skocpol report [PDF] it discussed) focused on. Build a bigger movement, make the legislation simpler, get more help from the president, whatever. That...
URL: http://grist.org/politics/if-you-want-to-pass-climate-legislation-fix-u-s-politics/
Enclosure: http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/sites/default/files/skocpol_captrade_report_january_2013_0.pdf
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