American Intergovernmental Relations
Foundations, Perspectives, and Issues
Fifth Edition
Laurence J. O'Toole
- University of Georgia, USA
Robert (Rob) K. (Kay) Christensen
- University of Georgia, USA
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With the addition of brand new co-editor, Robert Christensen, this trusted reader is back in a fresh and insightful fifth edition.
To the general structure that has made American Intergovernmental Relations so enduring, the editors have added a new section that incorporates the importance of law and courts to intergovernmental relations. This new section explicitly grounds the study of intergovernmental relations to foundational Constitutional text and the dynamic role of the Supreme Court in interpreting constitutional powers.
O'Toole and Christensen have also added new selections that cover society's current and most pressing intergovernmental policy issues, including health care, immigration, and the evolving and controversial issue of medical marijuana.
As always, each essay is judiciously edited and substantial part introductions further contextualize each essay's contribution to make American Intergovernmental Relations an accessible and invaluable text, as well as an engaging read.
To the general structure that has made American Intergovernmental Relations so enduring, the editors have added a new section that incorporates the importance of law and courts to intergovernmental relations. This new section explicitly grounds the study of intergovernmental relations to foundational Constitutional text and the dynamic role of the Supreme Court in interpreting constitutional powers.
O'Toole and Christensen have also added new selections that cover society's current and most pressing intergovernmental policy issues, including health care, immigration, and the evolving and controversial issue of medical marijuana.
As always, each essay is judiciously edited and substantial part introductions further contextualize each essay's contribution to make American Intergovernmental Relations an accessible and invaluable text, as well as an engaging read.
Contents
Preface
Preface
American Intergovernmental Relations: An Overview
American Intergovernmental Relations: An Overview
I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
- 1. The Federal System
- 2. Models of National, State, and Local Relationships
- 3. The Paradox of the Middle Tier
- 4. Intergovernmental Management: A View from the Bottom
Review Questions
Review Questions
II: LEGAL ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 5. The Constitution of the United States (Excerpts)
- 6. Federalist No. 39
- 7. What the Framers Meant by Federalism
- 8. Dead or Alive? The Federalism Revolution and Its Meaning for Public Administration
Review Questions
Review Questions
III: POLITICAL ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 9. Governments as Interest Groups
- 10. Trends and Issues in Interstate Cooperation
- 11. Office of Intergovernmental Affairs: More Influential Than Ever
- 12. Ways of Achieving Federal Objectives
- 13. Beyond Preemption: Intergovernmental Partnerships to Enhance the New Economy
Review Questions
Review Questions
IV: FISCAL ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 14. The Economics of Intergovernmental Grants
- 15. Federal Grants-in-Aid to State Governments: A Political Analysis
- 16. Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development
- 17. Why Categorical Grants?
- 18. Financing Local Government in a Changing World
- 19. Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems
- 20. Taxes or Grants: What Revenue Source for Sub-Central Governments?
Review Questions
Review Questions
V: ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 21. The Techniques of Intergovernmental Regulation
- 22. The Politics of Unfunded Mandates
- 23. Another Look at Bargaining and Negotiating in Intergovernmental Management
- 24. American Public Administration and Impacts of International Governance
Review Questions
Review Questions
VI: EMERGING ISSUES AND CHALLENGES: THE FUTURE OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM
- 25. Homeland Security: The Federalism Challenge
- 26. Federalism by Waiver: MEDICAID and the Transformation of Long-term Care
- 27. Medical Marijuana: Implementing Gonzales v. Raich
- 28. Policy Innovation or Vertical Integration? A View of Immigration Federalism from the States
- 29. National Health Care: Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services
- 30. Intergovernmental Relations and Federalism: Its Past, Present and Future, and Does Anyone Care?
Review Questions
Review Questions
American Intergovernmental Relations: Concluding Thoughts
American Intergovernmental Relations: Concluding Thoughts
Index
Index
About the Editors
About the Editors
Description
With the addition of brand new co-editor, Robert Christensen, this trusted reader is back in a fresh and insightful fifth edition.
To the general structure that has made American Intergovernmental Relations so enduring, the editors have added a new section that incorporates the importance of law and courts to intergovernmental relations. This new section explicitly grounds the study of intergovernmental relations to foundational Constitutional text and the dynamic role of the Supreme Court in interpreting constitutional powers.
O'Toole and Christensen have also added new selections that cover society's current and most pressing intergovernmental policy issues, including health care, immigration, and the evolving and controversial issue of medical marijuana.
As always, each essay is judiciously edited and substantial part introductions further contextualize each essay's contribution to make American Intergovernmental Relations an accessible and invaluable text, as well as an engaging read.
To the general structure that has made American Intergovernmental Relations so enduring, the editors have added a new section that incorporates the importance of law and courts to intergovernmental relations. This new section explicitly grounds the study of intergovernmental relations to foundational Constitutional text and the dynamic role of the Supreme Court in interpreting constitutional powers.
O'Toole and Christensen have also added new selections that cover society's current and most pressing intergovernmental policy issues, including health care, immigration, and the evolving and controversial issue of medical marijuana.
As always, each essay is judiciously edited and substantial part introductions further contextualize each essay's contribution to make American Intergovernmental Relations an accessible and invaluable text, as well as an engaging read.
Contents
Preface
Preface
American Intergovernmental Relations: An Overview
American Intergovernmental Relations: An Overview
I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
- 1. The Federal System
- 2. Models of National, State, and Local Relationships
- 3. The Paradox of the Middle Tier
- 4. Intergovernmental Management: A View from the Bottom
Review Questions
Review Questions
II: LEGAL ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 5. The Constitution of the United States (Excerpts)
- 6. Federalist No. 39
- 7. What the Framers Meant by Federalism
- 8. Dead or Alive? The Federalism Revolution and Its Meaning for Public Administration
Review Questions
Review Questions
III: POLITICAL ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 9. Governments as Interest Groups
- 10. Trends and Issues in Interstate Cooperation
- 11. Office of Intergovernmental Affairs: More Influential Than Ever
- 12. Ways of Achieving Federal Objectives
- 13. Beyond Preemption: Intergovernmental Partnerships to Enhance the New Economy
Review Questions
Review Questions
IV: FISCAL ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 14. The Economics of Intergovernmental Grants
- 15. Federal Grants-in-Aid to State Governments: A Political Analysis
- 16. Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development
- 17. Why Categorical Grants?
- 18. Financing Local Government in a Changing World
- 19. Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems
- 20. Taxes or Grants: What Revenue Source for Sub-Central Governments?
Review Questions
Review Questions
V: ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 21. The Techniques of Intergovernmental Regulation
- 22. The Politics of Unfunded Mandates
- 23. Another Look at Bargaining and Negotiating in Intergovernmental Management
- 24. American Public Administration and Impacts of International Governance
Review Questions
Review Questions
VI: EMERGING ISSUES AND CHALLENGES: THE FUTURE OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM
- 25. Homeland Security: The Federalism Challenge
- 26. Federalism by Waiver: MEDICAID and the Transformation of Long-term Care
- 27. Medical Marijuana: Implementing Gonzales v. Raich
- 28. Policy Innovation or Vertical Integration? A View of Immigration Federalism from the States
- 29. National Health Care: Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services
- 30. Intergovernmental Relations and Federalism: Its Past, Present and Future, and Does Anyone Care?
Review Questions
Review Questions
American Intergovernmental Relations: Concluding Thoughts
American Intergovernmental Relations: Concluding Thoughts
Index
Index
About the Editors
About the Editors
Reviews
American Intergovernmental Relations
Foundations, Perspectives, and Issues
November 2012 | 440 pages | CQ Press
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With the addition of brand new co-editor, Robert Christensen, this trusted reader is back in a fresh and insightful fifth edition.
To the general structure that has made American Intergovernmental Relations so enduring, the editors have added a new section that incorporates the importance of law and courts to intergovernmental relations. This new section explicitly grounds the study of intergovernmental relations to foundational Constitutional text and the dynamic role of the Supreme Court in interpreting constitutional powers.
O'Toole and Christensen have also added new selections that cover society's current and most pressing intergovernmental policy issues, including health care, immigration, and the evolving and controversial issue of medical marijuana.
As always, each essay is judiciously edited and substantial part introductions further contextualize each essay's contribution to make American Intergovernmental Relations an accessible and invaluable text, as well as an engaging read.
To the general structure that has made American Intergovernmental Relations so enduring, the editors have added a new section that incorporates the importance of law and courts to intergovernmental relations. This new section explicitly grounds the study of intergovernmental relations to foundational Constitutional text and the dynamic role of the Supreme Court in interpreting constitutional powers.
O'Toole and Christensen have also added new selections that cover society's current and most pressing intergovernmental policy issues, including health care, immigration, and the evolving and controversial issue of medical marijuana.
As always, each essay is judiciously edited and substantial part introductions further contextualize each essay's contribution to make American Intergovernmental Relations an accessible and invaluable text, as well as an engaging read.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- American Intergovernmental Relations: An Overview
- I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
- 1. The Federal System
- 2. Models of National, State, and Local Relationships
- 3. The Paradox of the Middle Tier
- 4. Intergovernmental Management: A View from the Bottom
- Review Questions
- II: LEGAL ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 5. The Constitution of the United States (Excerpts)
- 6. Federalist No. 39
- 7. What the Framers Meant by Federalism
- 8. Dead or Alive? The Federalism Revolution and Its Meaning for Public Administration
- Review Questions
- III: POLITICAL ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 9. Governments as Interest Groups
- 10. Trends and Issues in Interstate Cooperation
- 11. Office of Intergovernmental Affairs: More Influential Than Ever
- 12. Ways of Achieving Federal Objectives
- 13. Beyond Preemption: Intergovernmental Partnerships to Enhance the New Economy
- Review Questions
- IV: FISCAL ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 14. The Economics of Intergovernmental Grants
- 15. Federal Grants-in-Aid to State Governments: A Political Analysis
- 16. Entrepreneurial Cities, U.S. Federalism, and Economic Development
- 17. Why Categorical Grants?
- 18. Financing Local Government in a Changing World
- 19. Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems
- 20. Taxes or Grants: What Revenue Source for Sub-Central Governments?
- Review Questions
- V: ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
- 21. The Techniques of Intergovernmental Regulation
- 22. The Politics of Unfunded Mandates
- 23. Another Look at Bargaining and Negotiating in Intergovernmental Management
- 24. American Public Administration and Impacts of International Governance
- Review Questions
- VI: EMERGING ISSUES AND CHALLENGES: THE FUTURE OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM
- 25. Homeland Security: The Federalism Challenge
- 26. Federalism by Waiver: MEDICAID and the Transformation of Long-term Care
- 27. Medical Marijuana: Implementing Gonzales v. Raich
- 28. Policy Innovation or Vertical Integration? A View of Immigration Federalism from the States
- 29. National Health Care: Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services
- 30. Intergovernmental Relations and Federalism: Its Past, Present and Future, and Does Anyone Care?
- Review Questions
- American Intergovernmental Relations: Concluding Thoughts
- Index
- About the Editors
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