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IN TERMS OF FEDERALISM, THE YEAR 1992-1993 WAS INTERESTING IN IT AMBIVALENCE. THE NEW PRESIDENT AND A SOMEWHAT RECONSTITUTED CONGRESS TOOK ACTIONS THAT REVERBERATED THROUGH THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM; YET THERE WAS NO HINT OF A COHERENT THEORY OF FEDERALISM UNDERLYING THOSE ACTIONS. TWO TRENDS HELD STEADY: THE FEDERAL DEFICIT CONTINUED TO CONSTRAIN NEW DOMESTIC INITIATIVES AND STATES AND LOCALITIES CONTINUED TO BE SUBJECTED TO UN(DER)FUNDED MANDATES. A REVIEW OF U.S. SUPREME COURT RULINGS IN CASES WITH INTERGOVERNMENTAL IMPLICATIONS, DOES NOT REVEAL A DISCERNIBLE FEDERALISM PHILOSOPHY IN THAT BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT. IF ANYTHING, 1992-1993 FURTHER UNDERSCORED THE PULLING AND TUGGING BETWEEN THE NATION AND THE STATES THAT HAS CHARACTERIZED AMERICAN FEDERALISM FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS.

City governments are actively involved in enhancing the development potential of their territories. They mobilize public capital to influence development. In this article, a conceptual framework is constructed around two factors that trigger the mobilization of public capital: (1) a perception of imbalance between a city's competitive tax burden and service-delivery levels and (2) city officials' vision of the appropriate place for their city amid what they consider to be relevant cities. Trigger mechanisms produce four city-level orientations to development that are labeled survivalist, market, expansionist, and maintenance. In an application of the conceptual framework, data are presented from representative cities.

Federal, state, and local relations as applied to financial and environmental policy desegregation, economic development, health, education, and other issues; 12 articles. Includes discussion of prospects for Canadian federalism and a federalist solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Federal, state, and local relations as applied to abortion, housing, desegregation, economic development, health, education, and other issues; 10 articles.