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Federalism has rarely been a national campaign issue, & the presidential campaign of 2000 was no exception. Although the candidates talked of a key state-local issue -- education -- it was in the context of the popular concern over the quality of schools, rather than federalism issues of governmental responsibility for education. However one aspect of federalism was evident in the presidential campaign. The first president of the new millennium may get a chance to name at least one US Supreme Court justice. Given the slim 5-4 majorities on most federalism cases, the appointment or appointments could be pivotal. Meanwhile, in the Congress & state capitols, technology & globalization issues forced a rethinking of traditional intergovernmental fiscal & regulatory functions. Adapted from the source document.

Internet taxation and intergovernmental relations, preemption and implementation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, welfare reform, child-support enforcement, city and county revenue decisions, morality-policy conflict, the federal role, and other issues; US; 13 articles, including two on Cyprus.

Block grants, intergovernmental relationships, expansion of the federal role, the federal budget, tobacco settlement and other state initiatives, executive order on federalism, and other issues; US; 7 articles, including one on Quebec.

Budget balances, children's health, highways, state innovations, environmental policy, and other issues; US; 12 articles, including two respectively on Great Britain and Mexico.

Examines shift from national policy deliberations to the responses of states; welfare reform, privatization, health care reform, Hawaiian sovereignty, and other issues; 10 articles

Examines circumstances surrounding proposals to shift responsibility from Washington to state and local governments; US.

This article addresses the relationship between the choices of a policy target and the institutional structure of the delivery system, focusing on states' desire to increase the production of primary care physicians. We examine two possible strategies—an institutional strategy in which state dollars are provided directly to medical schools and an individual strategy in which financial incentives are provided directly to students. We hypothesize that a state's choice between the strategies can be understood by institutional characteristics of the state's medical schools. Results indicate that these characteristics do have an influence on the choice of policy target.