The Rebirth of Federalism: Slouching Toward

Both a history of American federalism and an analysis of its current condition, this second edition offers up-to-date statistics and new interpretation. While considering recent developments, Walker concludes with an optimistic assessment of the overall health of the system.

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Acronyms

xix

Introduction: A New System

1

(1)

A Dozen Dimensions of Recent Change, 1961-98

2

(13)

Conclusion

15

(4)

Part 1 FEDERALISM TODAY

Federalism and Its Many Faces: What Is Federalism? What Are Intergovernmental Relations?

19

(20)

Models, Metaphors, and Interpretations

21

(13)

Summary

34

(5)

Part 2 NEARLY FOUR CENTURIES OF AMERICAN FEDERALISM, 1607--1998

American Federalism and Its Intergovernmental Relations, 1607--1789

39

(26)

How It Began

39

(6)

The Constitutional Convention: Creativity under Difficult Circumstances

45

(9)

What Manner of System?

54

(11)

Variations on Dual Federalism, 1789--1930

65

(24)

The Dual Federalism of the Rural Republic, 1789--1860

65

(8)

The Second Seven Decades: Dual Federalism with a Few Dents, 1860--1930

73

(14)

Conclusion

87

(2)

The Rise and Maturation of Cooperative Federalism, 1930--60

89

(32)

The Court Crushes Old Dual Federalism

90

(4)

Operations of Functional Federalism

94

(17)

The Third Phase of the Third Party System

111

(10)

Cooperative Federalism's Conceptual Offspring, 1960--80

121

(20)

Creative Federalism

123

(3)

The New Federalism

126

(2)

Congressional Federalism: Creative Federalism Resurgent

128

(5)

The New Partnership

133

(3)

From ``Picket-Fence Federalism'' to ``Bamboo-Fence Federalism''

136

(4)

Conclusion

140

(1)

The Reactions to Cooperative (and Co-Optive) Federalism, 1981--

141

(34)

Campaign Themes and Reagan Goals

142

(1)

The Reagan Record

142

(9)

The Bush Aftermath

151

(5)

Clinton, Congress, and the Current IGR Condition

156

(12)

Our Federalism's Current Condition

168

(7)

Part 3 SOME DYNAMICS OF TODAY'S SYSTEM

The Federal Judiciary: Centralizer or Umpire?

175

(37)

The Warren Court in the Sixties

176

(3)

The Burger Court

179

(11)

The Rehnquist (or Post-Powell) Court

190

(16)

The Supreme Court in Retrospect

206

(6)

Fiscal Federalism: The Fateful Dynamic

212

(48)

Galloping Public Sector Growth

212

(14)

Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: Dramatic Expansions, Then Some Constraints

226

(29)

The Deficit That Disappeared

255

(5)

A Resurgent Role for the States?

260

(40)

The Leading Intergovernmental Linkage

260

(4)

The Silent Revolution

264

(5)

The Fifty State-Local Fiscal and Servicing Systems

269

(8)

The States as Implementers of New Intergovernmental Programs

277

(4)

The States as Shapers of Local and Substate Regional Institutions and Processes

281

(5)

Eighteen Approaches to Regionalism

286

(12)

Afterthoughts

298

(2)

A New Political System?

300

(21)

The Devilish Dynamics

300

(11)

State and Local Parties Adapting

311

(2)

What Kind of Party System?

313

(8)

Part 4 TOWARD A REBIRTH OF FEDERALISM

What of the future?

321

(34)

General Findings and Observations

322

(6)

Five Paradoxes

328

(8)

Why These Conflicting Views?

336

(6)

An Agenda for Reform

342

(12)

A Last Word

354

(1)

Notes

355

(30)

Index

385

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