Research Catalog

Title

American intergovernmental relations: their origins, historical development, and current status.

Author

Graves, W. Brooke (William Brooke), 1899-1973.

Publication

New York, Scribner [1964]

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Details

Description

xx, 984 pages illustrations, portraits, maps, diagrams, tables; 24 cm

Subject

• Federal government > United States
• State governments > United States
• State governments
• Federal government
• State governments
• Föderalismus
• Gemeinde
• Federalisme
• Centralisme
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part I. Historical background - Intergovernmental relations: a universal problem -- Colonial backgrounds of American federalism -- The formative period -- Part II. Policy determination: structure and procedure - Constitutional provisions -- The role of the legislature -- The role of the executive -- Judicial relations in federalism -- Political parties in a federal system -- Part III. Federal-state relations in important functional areas - Civil rights and human values -- Commerce, labor, and finance -- Foreign affairs in a federal system -- National security: Increasing state responsibility -- Part IV. Intergovernmental fiscal relations - Tax conflicts and the balance of power -- The grant-in-aid system: Origins and development -- The grant-in-aid system: World War I through the Roosevelt era -- -- The grant-in-aid system: Developments since World War II -- Part V. Other interlevel and interjurisdictional relations - Interstate cooperation -- The role of regionalism in a federal system -- Federal-local relations -- State-local relations -- Interlocal relations -- Part VI. Adjustment and change in a federal system - Constant rumblings of discontent -- Cooperative federalism -- The federal government bypasses the states -- The search for an acceptable policy -- Making federalism work.

LCCN

64011248

OCLC

• ocm01175478
• 1175478
• SCSB-192599

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library