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Jul 23, 2022 · Coercive federalism is a period of American federalism that began in the late 1960's. It is characterized by substantial growth in the power of the federal government relative to the states and by the ability of the federal government to override state powers and impose policies on the states.
- Cooperative Federalism
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Russell Hanson, “Intergovernmental Relations,”...
- Dual Federalism
Dual federalism was the predominant theory for interpreting...
- Intergovernmental Relations
The term “intergovernmental relations” (IGR) was invented in...
- No Child Left Behind Act
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas; McGuinn, P. 2016....
- Cooperative Federalism
Coercive federalism is a period of American federalism that began in the late 1960’s. It is characterized by substantial growth in the power of the federal government relative to the states and by the ability of the federal government to override state powers and impose policies on the states.
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Dec 21, 2017 · Abstract. American federalism is a highly institutionalized compound of dual, cooperative, and coercive federalism that are coexisting states as well as historical phases. Contemporary coercive federalism has several systemic consequences including a shift in federal policy-making from places to persons, long-term fiscal stress, deceased ...
- John Kincaid
- 2017
Jul 11, 2020 · More broadly, polarized federalism has taken its place among entrenched concepts such as coercive, cooperative, and dual federalism (Conlan 2017; Grumbach 2018; Kincaid 2017). Building on this background, we discuss the importance of polarization for understanding recent federalism developments.
- Greg Goelzhauser, David M Konisky
- 2020
- Abstract
- Coercive Federalism: A Taxonomy
- The Bush Era: Continuities and Change
- Homeland Security
- The Evolution of Mandates as A Tool of Government
- The Politics of Coercive Federalism
- Toward An Analytic Framework
- Conclusions
Over the past forty years, mandates and preemptions have become among the primary tools relied on by Congress and the president to project national priorities and objectives throughout the intergovernmental system (Kincaid 1990). The trends toward the use of coercive tools have proven to be durable and long lasting, albeit punctuated by episodes of...
The concept of coercive federalism covers a range of potential federal policy actions with centralizing effects on our system. Intergovernmental regulations can range from direct orders imposed on state and local governments by federal statute to more indirect actions that force state and local policy change as a consequence of other independent fe...
At the outset of a new administration, expectations were high for policy change in the intergovernmental system. President Bush himself proved to be more committed to conservative ideological principles than many had expected, given his self proclaimed profile as a consensus leader with Democratic state legislators in Texas (Fortier and Ornstein 20...
The tragic events of September 11, 2001, forced federal officials to recognize that the intergovernmental system constituted the nation's first line of defense in dealing with the consequences of terrorist attacks. However, the presence of a strong national consensus, many externalities, extensive interdependencies, and high stakes ultimately led t...
The mandates passed during this period illustrated both continuity and change in the types of policy instruments adopted by federal policymakers to impose national regulatory policies. Congress and the president showed themselves to be opportunistic in reaching for a wide range of regulatory strategies to impose mandated requirements on state and l...
Clearly UMRA was not able to provide the institutional ballast to prevent major surges of nationalizing legislation. The roots of federal mandate and preemptions run deep through the modern political system, and it is unrealistic to expect a procedure to forestall strongly rooted national policy movements involving the intergovernmental system. Ind...
State and local governments are critical to the outcomes of mandate policy debates. Given the importance of state and local behavior and the ambivalence that they face in confronting mandate proposals, under what conditions are state and local officials likely to be more or less influential? William Gormley argues that mandates have variable levels...
Federal actions constituting coercive federalism, including mandates, continue to be a major feature of our system, relied upon by a diverse range of actors to accomplish a wide variety of policy and political goals. The Bush era continues trends observed in prior decades, breaking new ground in the nationalization and centralization of policy in a...
- Paul Posner
- 2007
Federalism (from the Latin foedus, meaning covenant) was the most feasible way for the people of the United States to create a continental-size democratic republic with a government strong enough to develop and protect the union without destroying the 13 constituent republics that preceded the union.
Dec 17, 2019 · Fiscal federalism – a term attributed to Richard Musgrave – is a subfield of public finance that functions as an institutionalized bureaucracy characterized by centralized planning, efficient assignment of functions, and intimate cooperation between the different levels of government.
