Intergovernmental Political Competition in American Federalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6230239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig Volden (0000-0003-0046-4510, The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 327-342 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2005.00126.x |
| OpenAlex | W2130086405 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 44 |
Many policies in the United States are jointly determined by federal and state actions. In the game theoretic model offered here, politicians in both the state and national governments seek credit for providing goods desired by the public and avoid blame for the taxes necessary to provide the goods. In line with Peterson's (1995) theory of functional federalism, the level of government that is better able to supply particular goods and services tends to take the lead in their provision, even to the extent of fully crowding out much less efficient governments. However, under a broad set of circumstances, both state and national politicians seek credit via public spending, and their joint provision leads to a relative "oversupply" of public goods and services, and thus to "overtaxation." Under joint provision, states vary in their responses to changing federal spending patterns based both on the causes of the national changes and on state characteristics
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Emerging Governance at the Edge of Constrained Federalism
Uneven local implementation of federal policy after disaster
The Architecture of Government
Inching toward Incrementalism
The Political Geography of Inequality
Deciding on justice
Political and administrative decentralization and responses to Covid-19
The Impact of Fiscal Decentralisation on Education and Other Types of Spending
Conceptualizing an Interdisciplinary Collective Impact Approach to Examine and Intervene in the Chronic Cycle of Homelessness
The implementation of EU law by national administrations
For whom the bell tolls
Public Goods in Federal Systems
The Political Science of Federalism
Public policy in multi-level systems
The purpose of intergovernmental councils
Mudding the playing field. Fiscal contributions to municipalities as a political construction
Second Generation Fiscal Federalism
Claiming Credit in the U.S. Federal System
Does Home Rule Still Matter? Perceptions and Legal Constraints in Green Public Procurement
Rethinking the division of tax room and revenue in fiscal federalism
Learning from the States? Federalism and National Health Policy
Governance, federalism and organizing institutions to manage complex problems
Transnational Legitimacy in a Globalising World
Topic Coverage of Coalition Agreements in Multi-Level Settings
National Conflict in a Federal System
Beyond Marble Cakes and Picket Fences
Top-Down Federalism
The Strategic Use of Congressional Intergovernmental Delegation
Valuing Exit Options
The Distortion Gap
Does the Primacy System Work? State versus Federal Implementation of the Clean Water Act
Public Opinion Toward Intergovernmental Policy Responsibilities
Competitive Federalism and the Governance of Controversial Science
Trying not to Lose Ground
Partisan Polarization and Blame Attribution in a Federal System
Functional Federalism in Political Campaign Debates
How National Parties Nationalize Regional Elections
State Preemption of Local Authority
State Governments as Entrepreneurs in Securing Federal Benefits for Their Citizens
Intergovernmental Grants
Dispersed Federalism as a New Regional Governance for Homeland Security
Governors in Control
Policy Diffusion
New Avenues for the Study of Agenda Setting
Topics as Outcomes
Policy Feedback and Interdependence in American Federalism
Dual accountability and the nationalization of party competition
Decentralizing Pork
Intergovernmental climate change mitigation policies
Federalism and Policy Change
Madison in Baghdad
Reading, Writing, and the Regrettable Status of Education Research in Comparative Politics
The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion
Performance Federalism and Local Democracy
Cities as Lobbyists
Pronoun Usage as a Measure of Power Personalization
Pollution, Politics, and Preferences for Environmental Spending in the States
Institutional Collective Action on Drugs
Looking for two-sided coattail effects
Second-Order Devolution or Local Activism? Local Air Agencies Revisited
The Impact of Recentralization on Public Services
Noisy Retrospection
The Population Ecology of Interest Representation
Constitutional secession clauses
The American Mosaic
The Rebirth of Federalism
The New Federalism
Federal Mandates by Popular Demand
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
The Political Economy of Benefits and Costs
The Power to Tax
Variability in State Policy Priorities
Candidate Advertisements, Media Coverage, and Citizen Attitudes
National-State Relations
State Responses to Declining Federal Support
A Wider Race? Interstate Competition across Health and Welfare Programs
Reassessing the “Race to the Bottom” in State Welfare Policy
Taxes and Voting
Federalism and Policy Responsiveness
Deficits and Devolution in the 104th Congress
The Influence Of States On Federal Policy Adoptions
Reviving Leviathan
State and National Factors in Gubernatorial and Senatorial Elections
The Politics of Competitive Federalism
State Economies and State Taxes
Political Decentralization and Economic Reform
The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of the Law
The American Mosaic
Managing Municipal Services in an Era of Decuning Federal Assistance
Electoral Competition with Informed and Uninformed Voters
Economic and Referendum Voting
State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations
Fiscal Policy Outcomes and Electoral Accountability in American States
The Political Economy of Federalism
Political Confederation
| Unique citing works | 63 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,2 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 61 |