Studied by 0 people
Federalism
Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and state government in the United States. The national and the state governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.
Dual federalism
Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government, leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere.
Cooperative federalism
Stresses federalism as a system of intergovernmental relations in delivering governmental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government.
Marble cake federalism
Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs, rather than a layer cake, or dual federalism, with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
Competitive federalism
Views the national government, 50 states, and thousands of local governments as competing with each other over ways to put together packages of services and taxes.
Permissive federalism
Implies that although federalism provides "a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments, the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government."
Our federalism
Championed by Ronald Reagan, presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.
Creative federalism
During the Great Society, the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Fiscal federalism
Through different grant programs, slices up the marble cake into many different pieces, making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.
Linkage institutions
The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
