The State-Local Government(s) Conundrum: Power and Design

Bowman, Ann O'm.

doi:10.1086/693475

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“…Bowman (2017) has noted the increase of state centralization across many states as well as instances when local government pushback. She has also called on political scientists to engage in greater theoretical development on state–local relations, and the divergent responses during COVID-19 are an opportunity to do just that.…”

Section: Diffusion Quarantine: State Preemption and Covid-19mentioning

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“…Much like physical quarantine protects susceptible people from contact with infected carriers of a disease, states use ceiling preemption to prevent the spread of new policy ideas among their local governments. Bowman (2017) has noted the increase of state centralization across many states as well as instances when local government pushback. She has also called on political scientists to engage in greater theoretical development on state-local relations, and the divergent responses during COVID-19 are an opportunity to do just that.…”

Section: Diffusion Quarantine: State Preemption and Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cooperation and Conflict in State and Local Innovation During COVID-19

Mallinson

2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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This essay discusses how scholarship on state politics and policy, intergovernmental relations, and federalism provides necessary context for understanding governmental responses to COVID-19. It also highlights how observing those responses can further push the bounds of existing scholarship and theory regarding policy innovation and cooperative and conflictual federalism. It argues that there is a space for mutual learning and sharing between scholars and practitioners.

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Section: Diffusion Quarantine: State Preemption and Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Diffusion Quarantine: State Preemption and Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cooperation and Conflict in State and Local Innovation During COVID-19

Mallinson

2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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“…As Bowman (2017) explains, "[f]riction often characterizes the relationship of local jurisdictions to their states." Local governments depend on having sufficient autonomy to be responsive to their citizens.…”

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Usage of Specialized Service Delivery: Evidence from Contiguous Counties

Goodman

2018

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

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This study exploits exogenous policy discontinuities along state borders to estimate the influence of differences in local autonomy on the usage of special districts in U.S. counties. Using forty years of data, this analysis compares counties on either side of state borders where local autonomy differs and finds little to no evidence that negative changes in local autonomy leads to increased utilization of special districts. This study suggests that some prior literature may overstate the importance of local autonomy in local service delivery.

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“…The trend from 1957 until 2008 was toward increasing centralization among the three dimensions with interstate variation. 2 Some states have become considerably more centralized, while others have become more decentralized (Bowman 2017). Perceptual measures of centralization also point to a loss of local autonomy (Bowman and Kearney 2012).…”

Section: State-local Relations In the United Statesmentioning

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State Preemption of Local Laws: Origins and Modern Trends

Goodman

Hatch

McDonald

2020

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

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American cities are creatures of their states, with states both granting and limiting the power of their cities. This relationship is characterized by how cooperative or competitive states are with cities in their legislation. Despite the recent attention given to state preemption of local laws, this is not a new phenomenon. Part of the confusion surrounding preemption is that there is no shared definition or understanding of its forms. The purpose of this article is to begin to create that shared conception. In doing so, we define preemption according to its historic origins as the use of coercive methods to substitute state priorities for local policymaking. We argue modern state preemption of local laws can be divided into four phases, each with their own policies and mechanisms. We show how preemption has changed over time, shifting the functional, legal, and political relationship between states and their cities. Together, these phases help assist policymakers and administrators in understanding the nature of state preemption, and thus how to create and implement local policies in an environment where the distribution of power between governments is competitive and changing.

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The State-Local Government(s) Conundrum: Power and Design

Cited by 26 publications

References 40 publications

Cooperation and Conflict in State and Local Innovation During COVID-19

Cooperation and Conflict in State and Local Innovation During COVID-19

Usage of Specialized Service Delivery: Evidence from Contiguous Counties

State Preemption of Local Laws: Origins and Modern Trends

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