Devolution: Where's the revolution?

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 99-112

  Cole, Richard L ^a   Hissong, Rodney V ^a   Arvidson, Enid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0033259986     PISSN: 00485950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a030054     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Richard P. Nathan, "The Devolution Revolution: An Overview," Rockefeller Institute Bulletin 1996 (Albany, NY: Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 1996), pp. 5-13.
2. Richard P. Nathan as quoted in Rochelle L. Stanfield, "Holding the Bag?" National Journal 27 (9 September 1995): 2206.
3. John Kincaid, "The Devolution Tortoise and the Centralization Hare," New England Economic Review (May/June 1998): 36, 38.
4. See Richard P. Nathan and Thomas L. Gais, Implementing the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996: A First Look (Albany; NY: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 1999), p. 35.
5. Peter Eisinger, "City Politics in an Era of Federal Devolution," Urban Affairs Review 33 (January 1998): 308-325.
6. John Kincaid, "De Facto Devolution and Urban Defunding, The Priority of Persons Over Places," Journal of Urban Affairs 21 (Summer 1999): 165.
7. See, for example, the study of 23 local jurisdictions carried out by Bruce Katz and Kate Carnevale, "The State of Welfare Caseloads in America's Cities," (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, May 1998).
8. For excellent overviews, see Timothy Conlan, From New Federalism to Devolution: Twenty-Five Years of Intergovernmental Reform (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1998); Alice M. Rivlin, Reviving the American Dream (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1992).
9. For excellent overviews, see Timothy Conlan, From New Federalism to Devolution: Twenty-Five Years of Intergovernmental Reform (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1998); Alice M. Rivlin, Reviving the American Dream (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1992).
10. 119 S. Ct. 2240 (1999).
11. 119 S. Ct. 2219 (1999).
12. 119 S. Ct. 2199 (1999).
13. Eisinger, "City Politics in an Era of Federal Devolution," 308.
14. President Nixon's 1971 State of the Union Message may be found in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972), January 22, 1971.
15. Ronald Reagan, Inaugural address of President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register), 17 (4), pp. 1-5.
16. Newt Gingrich, Speech to the Republican National Committee, 20 January 1995, as quoted in Conlan, From New Federalism to Devolution, p. 297.
17. Newt Gingrich, Speech to the Republican National Committee, 20 January 1995, as quoted in Conlan, From New Federalism to Devolution, p. 297.
18. William J. Clinton, "Remarks on Signing the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995," Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1996), pp. 381-383 (emphasis, ours).
19. John D. Donahue, Disunited States (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 7.
20. Nathan and Gais, Implementing The Personal Responsibility Act of 1996, p. 35.
21. Robert H. Wilson, "Devolution or Mutual Adjustment: The Case of the United States" (paper presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Fort Worth, TX, 1998), 13.
22. Eisinger, "City Politics in an Era of Federal Devolution," 316.
23. David T. Ellwood, "Comments," New England Economic Review (May/June, 1998): 45.
24. David R. Beam, "Discussion," New England Economic Review (May/June, 1998): 41.
25. Nathan, "The Devolution Revolution," 13.
26. Kincaid, "Devolution and Urban Defunding," 166.
27. Eisinger, "City Politics in an Era of Federal Devolution," 320.
28. David Walker has a chapter in his text on the role of states and state agencies in this context. See David B. Walker, "A Resurgent Role for the States," The Rebirth of Federalism (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1995), pp. 249-283.
29. Terry N. Clark, Urban Innovation (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994), p. 23.
30. Eisinger, "City Politics in an Era of Federal Devolution," 320.
31. Ibid.
32. Conlan, From New Federalism to Devolution, p. 312.
33. Paul L. Posner, "Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: 1996 and Beyond," Publius: The Journal of Federalism 27 (Spring 1997): 53-72.