The Politics of Coercive Federalism in the Bush Era

Posner, Paul L.

doi:10.1093/publius/pjm014

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“…With the few exceptions noted below the federal government has been the centralising authority for decades during both Democratic and Republican administrations (Posner 2007). Mandates and preemptions are two common federal policy actions with centralising effects.…”

Section: Intergovernmental Relations Theorymentioning

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Intergovernmental climate change mitigation policies: theory and outcomes

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This paper develops a framework for analysing intergovernmental relationships around greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation policies along a cooperation-conflict spectrum that affects the probability of their enactment. Cooperative policies, such as federal fiscal transfers to sub-national governments, facilitate enactment. Coordination policies, including enabling and funding mechanisms, promote interdependence between jurisdictions. Competitive policies, such as federal performance standards and price mechanisms, increase political conflict over authority. We categorise 23 policies developed by over 1,500 state stakeholders into the cooperation/coordination/conflict taxonomy. If scaled to the national level, these policies could reduce GHG emissions by over 3 billion tonnes by 2020 and generate nearly 2.2 million jobs (1.19 per cent above baseline projections). Nearly two-thirds of the job gains are from coordinated and cooperative policy options that are unlikely to occur under the status quo policy process. We recommend a national climate action planning process to reduce GHG emissions while increasing aggregate economic efficiency.

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Intergovernmental climate change mitigation policies: theory and outcomes

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“…Some observations regarding the use of mandates and preemptions in the United States, made, for example, by Posner (2007), point in a different direction. He shows that the phenomenon of coercive federalism, diagnosed earlier by Kincaid (1990), has prevailed under both parties controlling the White House and Congress.…”

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“…However, history also shows that by and large, governors of all parties can be bribed into consenting to centralizing competencies. Posner (2007) gives education policy as an example. Here, governors have tended to lobby for a centralized definition of standards of education, hoping that such standards would be associated with increased federal grants.…”

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A tale of two federalisms: Germany, the United States and the ubiquity of centralization

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Schnellenbach

2010

Const Polit Econ

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“…Kincaid (1990) notes that "the erosion of federal fiscal power and of constitutional and political limits on federal regulatory power in the 1970s and 1980s has produced a more coercive system of federal preemptions of state and local authority and unfunded mandates on state and local governments" (p.139). Although there have been efforts to increase collaboration and restoration as devolution, coercive federalism continued through the second Bush era (Conlan & Dinan, 2007;Posner, 2007). state funding.…”

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The Effects of Community Quality of Life on Local Policy Decisions

Choi²

2014

Applied Research Quality Life

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There have been extensive debates on the factors that influence local policy decisions.Although many researchers have contributed to uncovering various influences such as political, economic, institutional, and demographic factors on local policy decisions, however, the concept of QoL rarely has used in extant literature. Local government spending is likely to be affected by citizen demands for achieving community well-being. Additionally, given that different policy functions variably affect local circumstances, the impact of QoL on local policy decisions will depend on the policy area. Hence, this study examined the relationship between QoL and local budgetary decisions based on Peterson's (1981) policy scheme of, three distinct policy arenas (developmental, allocational, and redistributive policy). In examining the relationship of QoL and city spending across policy functions, I also considered economic, political, institutional, and demographic factors, derived from various theoretical perspectives on local policy decisions.The relative influences of community QoL as well as other factors on local policy decisions were estimated by two-stage least squares regression analysis (2SLS) for developmental spending and by ordinary least squares (OLS) for allocational and redistributive spending. To measure community QoL, this study used 89,066 completed surveys from 167 communities in the United States for 2002-2008 are used. QoL appeared as a critical factor influencing local government expenditures in the three policy areas. The impact of QoL on local spending in the three areas differed depending on city income levels; city income levels then moderated local policy decisions.iii These findings suggest that local policy priorities adjusted in accordance with economic growth. Allocational policy functions also should be thought to be functions of cities geared toward giving them a competitive edge over other cities by meeting evolved citizen preferences for city amenities. These findings also point to distinct patterns of political activities in each policy arena. Given that community QoL reflects adjusted citizens' demands, I contend that community QoL can contribute to performance management by providing additional public information and a complementary performance indicator.iv

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The Politics of Coercive Federalism in the Bush Era

Cited by 66 publications

References 7 publications

Intergovernmental climate change mitigation policies: theory and outcomes

Intergovernmental climate change mitigation policies: theory and outcomes

A tale of two federalisms: Germany, the United States and the ubiquity of centralization

The Effects of Community Quality of Life on Local Policy Decisions

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