The Divided States of America (eBook)

Why Federalism Doesn't Work

Donald F. Kettl (Autor)

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2020
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20105-4 (ISBN)

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Why federalism is pulling America apart-and how the system can be reformedFederalism was James Madison's great invention. An innovative system of power sharing that balanced national and state interests, federalism was the pragmatic compromise that brought the colonies together to form the United States. Yet, even beyond the question of slavery, inequality was built into the system because federalism by its very nature meant that many aspects of an American's life depended on where they lived. Over time, these inequalities have created vast divisions between the states and made federalism fundamentally unstable. In The Divided States of America, Donald Kettl chronicles the history of a political system that once united the nation-and now threatens to break it apart.Exploring the full sweep of federalism from the founding to today, Kettl focuses on pivotal moments when power has shifted between state and national governments-from the violent rebalancing of the Civil War, when the nation almost split in two, to the era of civil rights a century later, when there was apparent agreement that inequality was a threat to liberty and the federal government should set policies for states to enact. Despite this consensus, inequality between states has only deepened since that moment. From health care and infrastructure to education and the environment, the quality of public services is ever more uneven. Having revealed the shortcomings of Madison's marvel, Kettl points to possible solutions in the writings of another founder: Alexander Hamilton.Making an urgent case for reforming federalism, The Divided States of America shows why we must-and how we can-address the crisis of American inequality.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b/w illus. 8 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Aaron Burr • addiction • advantages and disadvantages of federalism • Air Pollution • Amendment • American Community Survey • American dream • americans • Anti-Federalism • aphorism • Articles of Confederation • barack obama • benefits of federalism • Big Government • Bill Clinton • border • Brown v. Board of Education • Bureaucracy • California emissions • California environmental standards • central government • chemical warfare • Citizens (Spanish political party) • constitutional amendment • continental congress • Criticism • Currency • Current population survey (US) • debt • decentralization • Deficit Spending • desegregation • disaster • distrust • Doctrine • domestic policy • Drinking Water • Economic Inequality • economy • education inequality • Emmanuel Saez • Employment • environmental inequality • Environmental Policy • EPA • e pluribus unum • Equal Protection Clause • Federal government of the United States • Federalism in the United States • federalism is broken • Federalist No. 10 • federal law versus state law • Finding • fixing federalism • Flint water • Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Gerrymandering • Give me liberty, or give me death! • Governance • Government • Government Debt • government spending • grand strategy • Great Society • health care inequality • health insurance • hostility • immorality • impasse • income • income inequality • income inequality in the united states • Infant Mortality • Inflation • Infrastructure • infrastructure inequality • Institution • Irony • John J. DiIulio, Jr. • Jurisdiction • land grant • Legalization • Legislation • Legislature • Lyndon B. Johnson • Market Failure • McCulloch v. Maryland • Medicaid • Member of Congress • minority group • Minority rights • misconduct • National Government (United Kingdom) • national identity • National policy • Nausea • Negotiation • neo-nazism • New Federalism • nuisance • of education • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act • Payment • percentage • Pesticide • plaintiff • Plessy v. Ferguson • Policy • Poliomyelitis • Political faction • political machine • Political Science • Politics • politics of the united states • Pollutant • pollution • Poverty • Precedent • Princeton University Press • private sector • problems of federalism • pros and cons of federalism • Provision (contracting) • Public Policy • Racial segregation • Racism • Rates (tax) • ratification • Recession • Redistricting • Regime • Republican Party (United States) • Requirement • Reserved powers • reserve power • Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive • Ronald Reagan • Separation of Powers • Sewage • Shays' Rebellion • Ship of State • Slavery • Slum • Smallpox • Social Inequality • Sovereignty • Stan Greenberg • State Government • State legislature (United States) • state of emergency • state responsibility • Subsidy • supreme court of the united states • tariff • Tax • Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • The Big Issue • The New York Times • The Other Hand • The Public Interest • three-fifths compromise • Total Cost • Uncertainty • Unemployment • United States • United States Census Bureau • Vomiting • Voting • Waiver • war • warfare • War on Poverty • water quality standards • Wealth • welfare • Welfare reform • what is federalism • White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20105-6 / 0691201056
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20105-4 / 9780691201054