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2008 SPECIAL ISSUE - VOLUME 38
The State of American Federalism 2007 - 2008
This annual review provides an excellent assessment of the state of American federalism. Edited by John Dinan, the issue and his comprehensive overview capture the trends, as well as the supporting actions from 2007 - 2008. The volume will be of interest to scholars in American and comparative federalism and would make an outstanding supplemental text in federalism and intergovernmental relations courses.
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Table of Contents
"The State of American Federalism 2007 - 2008: Resurgent State Influence in the National Policy Process and Continued State Policy Innovation"
John Dinan
"Dispersed Federalism as a New Regional Governance for Homeland Security"
Patrick S. Roberts
"Rebels and Their Causes: State Resistance to No Child Left Behind"
Bryan Shelly
"Public Opinion on Issues of Federalism in 2007: A Bush Plus?"
John Kincaid and Richard L. Cole
"State Policy Innovation and the Federalism Implications of Direct Democracy"
Kathleen Ferraiolo
"Election Reform after HAVA: Voter Verification in Congress and the States"
Daniel Palazzolo, Vincent G. Moscardelli, Meredith Patrick, and Doug Rubin
"Federalism and Front-loading"
Andrew E. Busch
"At the Invitation of the Court: Eminent Domain Reform in State Legislatures in the Wake of the Kelo Decision"
Elaine B. Sharp and Donald Haider-Markel
"Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Alito, and New Federalism Jurisprudence"
Christopher Banks and John Blakeman
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2007 SPECIAL ISSUES - VOLUME 37
U.S. Federalism and the Bush Administration
Providing the first comprehensive, academic assessment of the Bush Administration and federalism, this text will give students and scholars of federalism and U.S. public policy an invaluable record of past events and the impact of the most recent presidency on the U.S. intergovernmental system. In addition to a comprehensive overview by two top scholars of U.S. Federalism and guest editors—Tim Conlan and John Dinan—the issue demonstrates the continued centralization of federalism in the U.S. under the tutelage of a conservative president who came to the presidency directly from the governor’s office.
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Table of Contents
“Federalism, the Bush Administration, and the Transformation of American Conservatism”
Tim Conlan and John Dinan
“The Changing Face of Welfare during the Bush Administration”
Scott Allard
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“Education Accountability as a Presidential Priority: No Child Left Behind and the Bush Presidency”
Kenneth Wong and Gail Sunderman
“Going Federal: The Launch of Medicare Part D Compared to SSI”
Martha Derthick
“George W. Bush's Federal Aid Legacy”
J. Edwin Benton
“The Politics of Coercive Federalism in the Bush Era”
Paul Posner
“Environmental Policy and the Bush Era: The Collision Between the Administrative Presidency and State Experimentation”
Barry Rabe
“Congressional Preemption During the George W. Bush Administration”
Joseph Zimmerman
“The Middle Tier in American Federalism: State Government Policy Activism During The Bush Presidency”
Dale Krane
“George W. Bush, the Party System, and American Federalism”
Sidney Milkis and Jesse Rhodes
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Federalism and Formal Modeling
This special issue was edited by Craig Volden. Formal theory can provide an extremely useful means of examining such issues as choices related to governments' offering and accepting intergovernmental grants, survival of federal systems given the local and parochial interests of member states, and ways federal institutions might be self-enforcing. The five articles in this issue provide a sample of exciting work using formal theory to understand federal systems and explain their actions.
Table of Contents
“Constraining Federalism: Formalizing Expectations about Redistributive Policies in Decentralized Systems”
Michael Bailey
“Intergovernmental Grants: A Formal Model of Interrelated National and Subnational Political Decisions”
Craig Volden
“Valuing Exit Options”
Jenna Bednar
“Constructing Self-Enforcing Federalism in the Early United States and Modern Russia”
Barry Weingast, Rui de Figueiredo, and Michael McFaul
“Representative Democracy as a Necessary Condition for the Popular Legitimacy of a Federal Constitution”
Olga Shvetsova and Kevin Roust
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