Policy and Prose: "Intergovernmental Relations in Transition Reflections and Directions" On Sale Now

1. Intergovernmental Relations in Transition

[David K. Hamilton and Carl W. Stenberg]

Part 1. Phases of IGR Revisited

2. Intergovernmental Relations in the Early 21st Century: Lingering Images of Earlier Phases or Emergence of a New Phase?

[J. Edwin Benton]

3. Why Coercion and Cooperation Coexist in American Federalism

[John Kincaid]

4. Why We Fight: Conflict and "Coping" in 21st Century Intergovernmental Relations

[Brendan F. Burke and Jeffrey L. Brudney]

Part 2. Fiscal and Institutional Issues

5. Scarcity and the Federal System

[Paul L. Posner]

6. Putting the "R" Back in IGR: The Great Recession and Intergovernmental "Relationships"

[Bruce J. Perlman, Michael J. Scicchitano, and Yahong Zhang]

Part 3. Intergovernmental Management Cases

7. Partisan Polarization, Administrative Capacity, and State Discretion in the Affordable Care Act

[Dale Krane and Shihyun Noh]

8. The Diffusion of Federal Regulation through Contracts: The Case of Food Safety Policy

[Jocelyn M. Johnston and Rebecca Yurman]

9. Clean Energy and Growth through State and Local Implementation

[Benjamin H. Deitchman]

10. Bottom-up Federalism: An Examination of U.S. Local Governments’ Climate Change Policy

[Benoy Jacob, Brian Gerber, and Sam Gallaher]

Part 4. Laboratories of Democracy at Work

11. The Legislative Transformation of State-Local Relations

[Ann O’M. Bowman and Richard C. Kearney]

12. Pulling the Lever: The States’ Role in Catalyzing Local Change

[Ricardo S. Morse and Carl W. Stenberg]

13. Professional Development Applied Projects: State-Level Laboratories of Democracy

[Susan Paddock]

Part 5. Reflections from the Trenches

14. The Unraveling of the Intergovernmental System: A Practitioner’s Observations

[Donald Borut]

15. American Federalism Without a System of Intergovernmental Relations

[Parris N. Glendening]

16. Back to the Future?

[Carl W. Stenberg and David K. Hamilton]

Policy and Prose