Urban Policy in a Changing Federal System : Proceedings of a Symposium.

Urban Policy in a Changing Federal System -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Summary -- WHAT IS FEDERALISM? -- THE NATIONAL IDEA VERSUS DEVOLUTION -- FISCAL CAPACITY, INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEDERAL DEVOLUTION -- RESPONSES TO NEW FEDERALISM -- CONCLUSION -- 1 Trends and Developments in Federalism: The Meaning for Urban Policy -- THE EVOLUTION OF FEDERALISM -- ECONOMIC CONDITIONS -- THE PUBLIC MOOD -- THE DECLINE IN FEDERAL DOMESTIC SPENDING -- THE SHIFT TO BLOCK GRANTS -- CHANGING FUNCTIONAL ASSIGNMENTS -- PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH -- PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR RESPONSES -- INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION OR CONFLICT? -- URBAN POLICY OPTIONS -- Fiscal Policies -- State-Local Functional Assignments -- Other State Actions -- State Organizational Alternatives -- Metropolitan or Substate Regional Alternatives -- Regional Programming and Interlocal Coordination -- Local Government Reform -- Metropolitan Financing -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 2 The Supreme Court and the Federal System: A Constitutional Framework for Urban Policy -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DEATH AND LIFE OF SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS -- BALANCING TESTS AND DEFERENCE TO THE STATES -- EXPANSION OF THE REACH OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT -- ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS STATUTES AGAINST THE STATES -- A LAST HURRAH FOR THE TENTH AMENDMENT -- THE SUPREME COURT AND THE FEDERAL SYSTEM -- THE SUPREME COURT AND CONGRESSIONAL FEDERALISM -- CONTEMPORARY FEDERALISM: A CONSTITUTIONAL CHINESE MENU -- Mythic Federalism -- Dual Sovereignty -- Cooperative Federalism -- Active Nationalism -- Benign Federalism -- Functional Federalism -- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NEW FEDERALISM AND NATIONAL URBAN POLICY -- REFERENCES -- 3 Fiscal Federalism after the California Taxpayers' Revolt: A Sorting out of Sorts -- THE GREAT STATE-LOCAL SLOWDOWN.

Revolt of the Taxpayers (1978-1980) -- Reductions in Federal Aid Flows-1979-1984 -- Recession-No Bailout -- THE GREAT SPEEDUP IN FEDERAL EXPENDITURES -- Deficit Financing -- Defense and Demographics -- A FISCAL PROGNOSIS -- State-Local Spending Trends -- The Fiscal Crunch -- Rainy Day Psychology -- Economic Development Concerns -- Federal Spending Prospects -- The Disappearance of Four Expenditure Boosters -- The Deficit Crisis -- THE GREAT COMPROMISE? -- DE FACTO NEW FEDERALISM -- REFERENCES -- 4 National-Urban Relations in Foreign Federal Systems: Lessons for the United States -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS -- NATIONAL-URBAN RELATIONS -- Relationships through the Grant System -- Mandates -- Relationship through Negotiations -- NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR URBAN PROBLEMS -- DIVISION OF FUNCTIONS AND REVENUE SOURCES -- Division of Functional Responsibilities -- Assignment of Revenue Bases -- FISCAL FEDERALISM AND URBAN FINANCES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCE LIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 5 The Distributive Politics of the New Federal System: Who Wins? Who Loses? -- INTRODUCTION -- DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS IN THE PRE-REAGAN PERIOD -- Entitlement Grants -- Operating Grants -- Impact on People and Places -- DISTRIBUTIVE POLITICS IN THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION -- Entitlement Grants -- Operating Grants -- Impact on People and Places -- VARIATIONS IN STATE AND LOCAL RESPONSES TO REAGAN'S PROGRAMS -- SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF MINORITIES AND CITIES -- KEY ISSUES -- REFERENCE LIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 6 De Facto New Federalism and Urban Education -- THE CONTEXT -- FEDERALISM AND THE SCHOOLS -- Formal Elements of Federalism -- Effects of Federalism -- THE GROWING STATE ROLE IN EDUCATION -- OUTLOOK FOR THE STATE ROLE: GUARDED OPTIMISM -- EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS -- SOME MODEST PROPOSALS -- REFERENCES.

7 The Significance of the Job Training Partnership Act for Federal-State-Local Relationships -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS JTPA? -- WHAT THE STATES ARE DOING -- State Job Training Coordinating Councils -- Service Delivery Areas -- Private Industry Councils -- Other Executive Branch Authority -- Local Grantees -- Program Results -- WHAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCE LIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 8 State-Local Partnership: Problems and Possibilities -- STATE-LOCAL PARTNERSHIP -- The Finances of the Partnership -- State Community Assistance -- THE NEW FEDERALISM: EIGHT STATES' RESPONSES -- Block Grants and the States -- Recent State Initiatives -- POLITICS OF THE PARTNERSHIP -- EMERGING MECHANISMS -- FORGING THE PARTNERSHIP -- REFERENCES -- 9 Cities in the New Federalism -- INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS TODAY -- THE NEW "MAYORS" GAME -- TESTING: THE NATHAN RETURNS AND THE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL URBAN POLICY TYPOLOGY -- Testing: Refining the Nathan Returns-Public Finance -- Testing: Refining the Nathan Returns-Political Culture -- GENERAL STRATEGIES OF CUT-BACK MANAGEMENT -- STAND-OFF TIME -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX TABLES -- 10 Changing Conceptions of the Governmental Role: Their Meaning for Urban Policy -- THE OLD ORDER AND THE REALIST CRITIQUE, AFTER 1880 -- THE "OLD ORDER" AND THE REALIST CRITIQUE, AFTER 1970 -- PRAGMATIC RESPONSES -- CHANGING IDEAS -- CHANGING POLITICS -- A POSSIBLE STRATEGY -- What Government Does -- What the Private Sector Does -- What "The City" Means -- Institutions for Issue-resolving -- Institutions for Issue-raising -- PROSPECTS -- REFERENCES -- Appendix Symposium Participants.

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