{"pk":46950,"title":"If You Choose Not to Decide… Alaska’s Budgeting Process in 2023","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Alaska in 2023 is experiencing the first results of the new election system—the top-four all-party primary and Ranked Choice Voting. So far, that system seems to be generating results consistent with what advocates expected; a more moderate and collegial policy-making environment, and possibly even more sensible budgetary policy. This, coupled with relatively strong (though declining) oil prices, and abundant sovereign wealth led to a relatively low-drama, low-conflict budgeting process in spring 2023, as well as relatively moderate budgeting outcomes.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w3280t3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Glenn","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wright","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2024-01-22T18:39:14Z","date_accepted":"2024-01-22T18:39:14Z","date_published":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cjpp/article/46950/galley/35492/download/"}]}