Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Century.
Title:
Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Century.
Author:
Conlan, Timothy J.
ISBN:
9780815703631
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Framing the Intergovernmental Debate -- Updating Theories of American Federalism -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Evolution of American Federalism -- Intergovernmental Finance in the New Global Economy: An Integrated Approach -- Part Two: Testing the Intergovernmental System: Issues and Challenges -- Developing a National Homeland Security System: An Urgent and Complex Task in Intergovernmental Relations -- Accountability and Innovation: New Directions in Education Policy and Management -- Welfare Reform: A Devolutionary Success? -- Medicaid Waivers: License to Shape the Future of Fiscal Federalism -- Regionalism and Global Climate Change Policy: Revisiting Multistate Collaboration as an Intergovernmental Management Tool -- Part Three: Issues of Governance in the Intergovernmental System -- From Oversight to Insight: Federal Agencies as Learning Leaders in the Information Age -- Performance Management and Intergovernmental Relations -- Block Grants and Devolution: A Future Tool? -- Mandates: The Politics of Coercive Federalism -- Intergovernmental Lobbying: How Opportunistic Actors Create a Less Structured and Balanced Federal Systems -- Conclusion: Managing Complex Problems in a Compound Republic -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
A Brookings Institution Press and the National Academy of Public Administration publication America's complex system of multi-layered government faces new challenges as a result of rapidly changing economic, technological, and demographic trends. An aging population, economic globalization, and homeland security concerns are among the powerful factors testing the system's capacity and flexibility. Major policy challenges and responses are now overwhelmingly intergovernmental in nature, and as a result, the fortunes of all levels of government are more intertwined and interdependent than ever before. This volume, cosponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), defines an agenda for improving the performance of America's intergovernmental system. The early chapters present the current state of practice in intergovernmental relations, including discussion of trends toward centralization, devolution, and other power-sharing arrangements. The fiscal underpinnings of the system are analyzed, along with the long-term implications of current trends in financing at all levels. The authors identify the principal tools used to define intergovernmental managementgrants, mandates, preemptionsin discussing emerging models and best practices in the design and management of those tools. In tergovernmental Management for the 21st Century applies these crosscutting themes to critical policy areas where intergovernmental management and cooperation are essential, such as homeland security, education, welfare, health care, and the environment. It concludes with an authoritative assessment of the system's capacity to govern, oversee, and improve. Contributors include Jocelyn Johnston (American University), Shelley Metzenbaum (University of Maryland), Richard Nathan (SUNY at Albany), Barry Rabe (University of Michigan), Beryl Radin (American
University), Alice Rivlin (Brookings Institution), Ray Sheppach (National Governors Association), Frank Shafroth (George Mason University), Troy Smith (BYUHawaii), Carl Stenberg (University of Nor.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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