Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Condition of Contemporary Federalism
Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Federal Role in the Federal System: The condition of contemporary federalism: conflicting theories and collapsing constraints
Author: Government and Business
Author: Richard LehnePublisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1452285454
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
In this thoroughly updated edition, Lehne takes a comparative approach, evaluating the U.S. political economy with respect to those of Great Britain, Germany, Japan, and the EU. The book provides detailed historical context for, and a conceptual understanding of, the business-government environment, and then clari?es the roles of the major actors and outlines the regulatory and policy frameworks. Along the way, Lehne probes some of the most crucial dilemmas facing government and business today.
Collapse of an Industry
Author: John L. CampbellPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150173363X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The commercial nuclear power industry was flourishing in the United States in the early 1970s; fifteen years later, the enterprise had collapsed. John L. Campbell examines the history of this debacle in order to explore how state and market shape each other under modern capitalism. In Collapse of an Industry, Campbell confronts controversial issues whose implications range far beyond the specifics of the nuclear power industry: the relative merits of free and controlled markets, the reliability of industrial planning, and the appropriate role of the state in managing economic activity. Ultimately, Campbell sheds light on the central question of whether modern democracy and capitalism may be essentially incompatible. A complex, expensive, and potentially very dangerous technology, nuclear energy requires careful long-range planning to sustain commercial success. Campbell's narrative account shows how political and economic institutions unique to the United States made the nuclear energy industry particularly vulnerable to a series of policy failures that undermined that planning. Drawing on industry histories and trade publications, government documents and personal interviews, he considers four key areas central to the collapse of the sector: competition and the failure to standardize equipment; growing public concern over reactor safety and the disposal of radioactive waste; the industry's financial crisis; and the complex politics of regulation. Campbell argues that the democratic institutions of the contemporary United States will not support the predictable conditions needed for accumulation in so capital-intensive and potentially hazardous a sector as commercial nuclear power. He emphasizes the importance of institutional forms to the making of public policy by contrasting the industry's demise in the United States with its modest successes in Western Europe, demonstrating how variations in important governmental and private institutions affected the general health of the industry in France, Sweden, and West Germany. A theoretically informed analysis free of the usual polemics about nuclear power, Collapse of an Industry merits the close attention of anyone concerned with the future of the commercial nuclear power industry.
Emerging Issues in American Federalism
Author: The Federal Role in the Federal System
Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Federal Role in the Federal System
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Federal Role in the Federal System: A crisis of confidence and competence
Author: From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing
Author: Bruce A. WallinPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9781589013278
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Once hailed as a revolutionary change in U.S. federal aid policy that would return power to state and local governments, General Revenue Sharing was politically dead a decade later. Bruce A. Wallin now offers the only complete history of the General Revenue Sharing program — why it passed, why state and local governments used it the way they did, and why it died. He examines its unique role in the history of U.S. federalism and explores its relevance to intergovernmental aid policy at the turn of a new century. This book is crucial to understanding the changed environment of U.S. intergovernmental relations in the 1990’s and makes a strong case for reconsidering a program of federal unrestricted aid.
The Question of State Government Capability
Author: Mavis Mann ReevesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State governments
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description