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This once again contributes to partisan rigidity. “Knowing they won’t be around for a long time, there’s no incentive to compromise,” says Gary Moncrief, an expert on legislatures at Boise State University in Idaho. With so little time, every vote counts as legislators try to repay their debts to the donors who put them in the job and prepare their next career move. They need not worry about a politically convenient vote that has long-term costs because those will be the problem of a different set of legislators.
In 2002 Idaho’s legislature became the first to repeal that state’s term-limits initiative. Legislatures or courts in five other states have since followed. But California does not allow initiatives to be amended, so they remain until the issue comes to the ballot box again (which may be next year).
The net effect of all initiatives is that the legislative branch of California’s government has been split in two. The initiative process, originally meant as a safety valve, has in reality become a rival to the legislature. Two law-making bodies—the voters and their representatives—are in open competition. The tragedy is that this undermines democracy by eliminating one of its main purposes: accountability. Schools have suffered the most.

A. 어휘
rigidity 硬直(경직). partisan rigidity 당의 노선에 집착하는 것.
contributes 제공하다, 기여하다. compromise 타협.
counts 중요하다. repeal 거절하다, 퇴짜 놓다. amend 수정하다.
split 쪼개지다. undermines 훼손하다. eliminate 제거하다.
accountability 책임.