From new deal to no deal

Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 84-89

  Swanson, Louis ^a   Freshwater, David ^b,c  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b TVA Rural Studies ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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References (4)

1. The use of the term devolution is misleading. The movement of federal authority and resources to the states and their localities is not a reversal of an evolutionary process. It is a process of partial decentralization of federal power. The various expressions of this process are new; they are not simply new forms of older policy. Moreover, the term implies a much greater loss of federal power than has occurred to date. At least one perspective is that the federal government has effectively transferred a great deal of the political and economic liability of past federal programs without giving up their strings.
2. Stephan J. Goetz and David Freshwater, "Effects of Welfare Reform on Rural Counties and Labor Markets," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 79 (1997), pp. 1515-1524.
3. William T. Howarth, "Land and Word," in Emery Castle, ed., The Changing American Countryside: Rural People and Places (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995).
4. Norman Dubin and Elliot Reed, Federal Funds to Rural Areas: Fair Share? Right Mix? (Washington, DC: National Governors Association, 1988).