Download Full eBooks in PDF
Contemporary American Federalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Contemporary American Federalism book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Joseph Francis Zimmerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1435686918
Traces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states.
Author : Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780275943851
This volume has been written specifically for students of the U.S. system of government, and for students interested in federalism in practice. Joseph F. Zimmerman traces the development if the U.S. federal system from 1789 to the present day by focussing in the shifting balance of power between the nation and the states. It introduces the important theories of federalism and explains how they can be used to understand the system as it was originally drawn up and as it operates now. All the important trends in national-state relations are examined, with particular attention being given to the preemption by the federal legislature and judiciary of the powers and authority of the states. The U.S. federal system has changed radically since its inception, and continues to increase in complexity. This lucid and accessible account links the system's current practices with its history and looks forward to the future of the most important federal system in operation today.
Author : Joseph F. Zimmerman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791475964
Traces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states.
Author : Michael Doonan
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780815724834
American Federalism in Practice is an original and important contribution to our understanding of contemporary health policy. It also illustrates how contentious public policy is debated, formulated, and implemented in today’s overheated political environment. Health care reform is perhaps the most divisive public policy issue facing the United States today. Michael Doonan provides a unique perspective on health policy in explaining how intergovernmental relations shape public policy. He tracks federal-state relations through the creation, formulation, and implementation of three of the most important health policy initiatives since the Great Society: the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), both passed by the U.S. Congress, and the Massachusetts health care reform program as it was developed and implemented under federal government waiver authority. He applies lessons learned from these cases to implementation of the Affordable Care Act. “Health policymaking is entangled in a complex web of shared, overlapping, and/or competing power relationships among different levels of government,” the author notes. Understanding federal-state interactions, the ways in which they vary, and the reasons for such variation is essential to grasping the ultimate impact of federalism on programs and policy. Doonan reveals how federalism can shift as the sausage of public policy is made while providing a new framework for comprehending one of the most polarizing debates of our time.
Author : United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Federal government
ISBN : IND:30000096928720
Author : Paul Nolette
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700620890
“It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system,” Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932, “that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory, and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” It is one of the features of federalism in our day, Paul Nolette counters, that these “laboratories of democracy,” under the guidance of state attorneys general, are more apt to be dictating national policy than conducting contained experiments. In Federalism on Trial, Nolette presents the first broadscale examination of the increasingly nationalized political activism of state attorneys general. Focusing on coordinated state litigation as a form of national policymaking, his book challenges common assumptions about the contemporary nature of American federalism. In the tobacco litigation of the 1990s, a number of state attorneys general managed to reshape one of America’s largest industries—all without the involvement of Congress or the executive branch. This instance of prosecution as a form of regulation is just one case among many in the larger story of American state development. Federalism on Trial shows how new social policy regimes of the 1960s and 1970s—adopting national objectives such as cleaner air, wider access to health care, and greater consumer protections—promoted both “adversarial legalism” and new forms of “cooperative federalism” that enhanced the powers and possibilities open to state attorneys general. Nolette traces this trend—as AGs took advantage of these new circumstances and opportunities—through case studies involving drug pricing, environmental policy, and health care reform. The result is the first full account—far-reaching and finely detailed—of how, rather than checking national power or creating productive dialogue between federal and state policymakers, the federalism exercised by state attorneys general frequently complicates national regulatory regimes and seeks both greater policy centralization and a more extensive reach of the American regulatory state.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Federal government
ISBN : SRLF:D0008083412
Author : Robert F. Nagel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195347978
At a time of unprecedented national power, why do so many Americans believe that our nationhood is fragile and precarious? Why the talk--among politicians, academics, and jurists--of "coups d'etat," of culture wars, of confederation, of constitutional breakdown? In this wide-ranging book, Robert Nagel proposes a surprising znswer: that anxiety about national unity is caused by centralization itself. Moreover, he proposes that this anxiety has dangerous cultural consequences that are, in an implosive cycle, pushing the country toward ever greater centralization. Carefully examining recent landmark Supreme Court cases that protect states' rights, Nagel argues that the federal judiciary is not leading and is not likely to lead a revival of the complex system called federalism. A robust version of federalism requires appreciation for political conflict and respect for disagreement about constitutional meaning, both values that are deeply antithetical to the Court's function. That so many believe this most centralized of our Nation's institutions is protecting, even overprotecting, state power is itself a sign of the depletion of those understandings necessary to sustain the federal system. Instead of a support for federalism, Nagel finds a commitment to radical nationalism throughout the constitutional law establishment. He traces this commitment to traditionally American traits like perfectionism, optimism, individualism, and legalism. Under modern conditions of centralization, these attractive traits are leading to unattractive social consequences, including tolerance, fearfulness, utopianism, and deceptiveness. They are degrading our political discourse. All this encourages further centralization and further cultural deterioration. This book puts the major federalism decisions within the framework of the Court's overall record, including its record on individual rights in areas like abortion, homosexuality, and school desegregation. And, giving special attention to public debate over privacy and impeachment, it places modern constitutional law in the context of political discourse more generally.
Author : Frederick D. Drake,Lynn R. Nelson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313305733
Explores the states' rights versus American federalism debate through this comprehensive collection of primary documents, reflecting the fervent stands of Americans throughout history.
Author : Vincent Ostrom
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472084569
Considers the social requirements for a thriving democracy
Author : David Brian Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136974298
Though Americans rarely appreciate it, federalism has profoundly shaped their nation’s past, present, and future. Federalism—the division of government authority between the national government and the states—affects the prosperity, security, and daily life of every American. In this nuanced and comprehensive overview, David Brian Robertson shows that past choices shape present circumstances, and that a deep understanding of American government, public policy, political processes, and society requires an understanding of the key steps in federalism’s evolution in American history. The most spectacular political conflicts in American history have been fought on the battlefield of federalism, including states’ rights to leave the union, government power to regulate business, and responses to the problems of race, poverty, pollution, abortion, and gay rights. Federalism helped fragment American politics, encourage innovation, foster the American market economy, and place hurdles in the way of efforts to mitigate the consequences of economic change. Federalism helped construct the path of American political development. Federalism and the Making of America is a sorely needed text that treats the politics of federalism systematically and accessibly, making it indispensible to all students and scholars of American politics. Chosen as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012.
Author : Larry N. Gerston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317477266
Understanding federalism - the form of political organization that unites separate polities within an overarching political system so that all maintain their political integrity - is central to the study of democratic government in the United States. Yet, many political scientists treat federalism as a set of abstract principles or a maze of budgetary transfers with little connection to real political life. This concise and engaging book boils the discussion down to its essence: federalism is about power, specifically the tug for power among and within the various levels of government. Author Larry N. Gerston examines the historical and philosophical underpinnings of federalism; the various "change events" that have been involved in defining America's unique set of federal principles over time; and the vertical, horizontal, and international dimensions of federalism in the United States today. The result is a book examining the ways in which institutional political power is both diffused and concentrated in the United States.
Author : Geoffrey Sawer
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015014737657
Author : Jeff Corntassel,Richard C. Witmer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0806139064
Over the past twenty years, American Indian policy has shifted from self-determination to “Forced Federalism” as indigenous nations in the United States have encountered new threats from state and local tribes over such issues as taxation, gaming, and homeland security. This book demonstrates how today's indigenous nations have taken unprecedented steps to reorient themselves politically in response to such challenges to their sovereignty.
Author : Donald F. Kettl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691234175
"As James Madison led America's effort to write its Constitution, he made two great inventions-the separation of powers and federalism. The first is more famous, but the second was most essential because, without federalism, there could have been no United States of America. Federalism has always been about setting the balance of power between the federal government and the states-and that's revolved around deciding just how much inequality the country was prepared to accept in exchange for making piece among often-warring states. Through the course of its history, the country has moved through a series of phases, some of which put more power into the hands of the federal government, and some rested more power in the states. Sometimes this rebalancing led to armed conflict. The Civil War, of course, almost split the nation permanently apart. And sometimes it led to political battles. By the end of the 1960s, however, the country seemed to have settled into a quiet agreement that inequality was a prime national concern, that the federal government had the responsibility for addressing it through its own policies, and that the states would serve as administrative agents of that policy. But as that agreement seemed set, federalism drifted from national debate, just as the states began using their administrative role to push in very different directions. The result has been a rising tide of inequality, with the great invention that helped create the nation increasingly driving it apart"--
