Explains how policy design and timing cause American state governments to greet national laws with enthusiasm, indifference, or hostility.
This book explains why state leaders strongly support some national laws while greeting others with indifference or outright hostility. Seven lively case studies reach across different historical eras and substantive policy areas. The book will interest experts, practitioners, and students of American politics and public policy.
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Explains how policy design and timing cause American state governments to greet national laws with enthusiasm, indifference, or hostility.
This book explains why state leaders strongly support some national laws while greeting others with indifference or outright hostility. Seven lively case studies reach across different historical eras and substantive policy areas. The book will interest experts, practitioners, and students of American politics and public policy.
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The US Constitution did not establish a clear division of responsibilities between the national government and state governments, so the distribution of policymaking authority is subject to constant renegotiation and debate. When national lawmakers introduce policy initiatives that implicate the states in important ways, why do state leaders sometimes respond with strong support and other times with indifference or outright hostility? Moving beyond the conventional story that state officials simply want money and autonomy from their national counterparts, this book explains how the states' responses over the short, medium, and long term are shaped by policy design, timing, and the interaction between the two. Reaching across different historical eras with in-depth case studies of policies such as Superfund, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the book shows how federalism has influenced, and continues to influence, the evolution of American public policy.
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“'This engaging and innovative book puts forward a significant theoretical innovation backed up by extensive research.' C. Shortell, Choice”
About the Author
Andrew Karch is Arleen C. Carlson Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Early Start: Preschool Politics in the United States (2013) and Democratic Laboratories: Policy Diffusion among the American States (2007). Shanna Rose is Associate Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, California. She is the author of Financing Medicaid: Federalism and the Growth of America's Health Care Safety Net (2013).
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