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Cooperative federalism, the reigning conception of American federalism from about 1954 to 1978, was a political response to the policy challenges of market failure, postwar affluence, racism, urban poverty, environmentalism, and individual rights. Having social equity as its primary objective, cooperative federalism significantly transformed ...
Dec 9, 2023 · Coercive federalism is the tightest form of federal control. Permissive federalism is a structure giving the states permission to control more areas, after the federal government has established those areas as being open to the states. In the United States, permissive federalism has been a hallmark of such issues as the civil rights movement ...
Coercive Federalism #2. Last week, we introduced the idea of coercive federalism, having reviewed dual federalism and cooperative federalism before that. This week, we conclude with a few notes on coercive federalism, revenue sharing, and block grants. The Nixon and Reagan administrations attempted to push back against the growing use of ...
Dec 1, 2001 · Coercive Federalism. To suspect that a legalistic critique of federal preemptions was bound to fail, however, is hardly to imply that critics do not have much of a case. The practice of displacing ...
Bibliography. Russell Hanson, “Intergovernmental Relations,” in Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis, 7th ed., ed. Virginia Gray, Russell L. Hanson, and Herbert Jacob (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1999); John Kincaid, “From Cooperative to Coercive Federalism,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 509 (May 1990): 139–52; and Marc Landy and ...
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 ...
Jan 1, 1995 · This article explores several constitutional bases for questioning the federal government's use of unfunded mandates and other forms of coercive intergovernmental regulation. The “anti-coercion” and “anti-commandeering” principles of the Tenth Amendment are proposed as general arguments against these forms of regulation.
