| Contemporary American Federalism: The Growth of National Power, Second Edition Contributor(s): Zimmerman, Joseph F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791475956 ISBN-13: 9780791475959 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2008 Annotation: Traces the development of the American federal system of government, focusing principally on the shifting balance of powers between the national government and the states. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | United States - General - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 320.473 |
| LCCN: 2007050478 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contemporary American Federalism traces the development of the federal system within the United States from 1789 to the present. In contrast to earlier works on American federalism, this book examines not only national-state relations, but also interstate relations and state-local relations, and does so while introducing and explaining how theories of federalism may be utilized to understand the system at its origins and as it operates today. Individual chapters explore the establishment of the federal system, the United States Constitution, congressional preemption of state regulatory authority, federalism and the judiciary, intergovernmental fiscal relations, interstate relations, state-local relations, and, finally, the growth of power centralization within the federal system. |