AMERICAN FEDERALISM: FROM JOHNSON TO BUSH

In: Publius: the journal of federalism, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 105-120

Abstract

INTERGOVERNMENTAL DEVELOPMENTS FOR MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS HAVE PRODUCED A NATION-CENTERED FEDERALISM. THIS ARTICLE LISTS REASONS FOR THIS FUNDAMENTAL SYSTEMIC TRANSFORMATION. IT THEN STATES THAT THE ONLY REAL CONSTRAINT ON NATIONAL ACTIVISM SINCE 1982 HAS BEEN BUDGET-DRIVEN FEDERALISM, NOT PLANNED REFORM EFFORTS. THE CURRENT SYSTEM THEN REQUIRES POLITICAL, REPRESENTATIONAL, JUDICIAL, AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IF THE CENTRALIZING, COOPTIVE, AND PERMISSIVE FEATURES OF CONTEMPORARY FEDERALISM ARE TO BE CORRECTED.