Andrew Karch (University of Minnesota), Shanna Rose (California Claremont McKenna College)

Responsive States

Federalism and American Public Policy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 226mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781108719230
• ISBN-10: 1108719236
• Artikelnr.: 56972763

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: states as stakeholders
1. Federalism and policy feedback
2. The surprising persistence of unemployment insurance
3. The brief life of the Sheppard-Towner Act
4. Medicaid's remarkable expansion
5. The rise and demise of general revenue sharing
6. How Superfund sowed the seeds of its own instability
7. No Child Left Behind and the politics of state resistance
8. Policy design, polarization, and the Affordable Care Act
Conclusion: responsive states.