Managing Carrots and Sticks

Changes in State Administrators' Perceptions of Cooperative and Coercive Federalism During the 1990s

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6375787
AutoresC-L Cho, Chung‐lae Cho, Dominic S Wright (0000-0002-9952-3877)
Ano2001
Volume31
Fascículo2
Páginas57-80
Data de publicação2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPublius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a004896
OpenAlexW2091445396
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16

The so-called devolution revolution was a significant theme in American federalism in the 1990s. Opinions on the issue vary widely. Some suggest that “major changes” occurred in intergovernmental relations. Others were pessimistic about the occurrence of any devolution during the decade. We investigated changes in intergovernmental relations between the national and state governments in the 1990s on the basis of Elazar's approach to American federalism involving: (1) administration, (2) cooperation and coercion, and (3) regulation. We used American State Administrator's Project (ASAP) data collected in 1994 and 1998 to access state administrators' perceptions of national fiscal and regulatory impacts on state agencies. We conclude that state administrators' perception of national fiscal and regulatory impacts changed only moderately from 1994 to 1998, and that evolution rather than revolution describes better the character of state-national intergovernmental changes during the 1990s

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